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balladist

[ bal-uh-dist ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

First recorded in 1855–60; ballad + -ist

This fact we may accept; but the question comes up: Is Homer such a balladist and nothing more?

Or a balladist, man or woman, took the centre, and sang towards our compassionate windows.

Sweet William has always been the favourite choice of the balladist, among the Christian names of the knightly wooers.

Indeed your balladist, like Allan Breck Stewart, was never a bigoted partisan of the law.

But the balladist carries everything before him by the verve and good humour and pawky wit of his song.

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