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Thread #65790   Message #1086623
Posted By: Ed.
05-Jan-04 - 05:37 PM
Thread Name: modern ballads
Subject: RE: modern ballads
You're on dangerous ground, Amos, if you wish to define the 'original sense':

OED
Fr. ballade f. Prov. balada dance, song or poem to dance to, f. balar to dance: cf. BALL