noun
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ballad poetry or songs
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the art of writing, composing, or performing ballads
Etymology
Origin of balladry
Example Sentences
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For 1998’s “Trampoline,” the band leaned into torch-song balladry and classic R&B but struggled to connect on country radio.
From Los Angeles Times
His mother and father encourage him to see the beauty and balladry in everyday life, and with earnest, wide-eyed awe, Jupe quickly runs circles around costars twice his age.
From Salon
Her new piano-brooder of a single, “Hard to Love Me,” hits right in the Adele-shaped hole in pop balladry right now.
From Los Angeles Times
The Recording Academy can’t get enough of young fogeys like Laufey, whose pop-jazz balladry might evoke voters’ memories of Norah Jones.
From Los Angeles Times
Oasis sounded great, with those three guitars snarling and shimmering over sturdy grooves that mapped a middle ground among punk, glam and late-Beatles balladry; Liam’s voice was somehow both brawny and sweet as he reached for the high notes with a kind of taunting effortlessness.
From Los Angeles Times
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