Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An obsolete form of balladry.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete See balladry.

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  • noun Obsolete form of balladry.

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Examples

  • The villages also must have their visitors to inquire what lectures the bagpipe and the rebeck reads, even to the ballatry and the gamut of every municipal fiddler, for these are the countryman’s Arcadias, and his Monte Mayors.

    Plea for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing 1906

  • The villages also must have their visitors to inquire what lectures the bagpipe and the rebeck reads, even to the ballatry and the gamut of every municipal fiddler, for these are the countryman's

    Areopagitica A speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing to the Parliament of England John Milton 1641

  • The villages also must have their visitors to inquire what lectures the bagpipe and the rebeck reads, even to the ballatry and the gamut of every municipal fiddler, for these are the countryman’s Arcadias, and his Monte Mayors.

    Areopagitica 2007

  • The villages also must have their visitors to inquire what lectures the bagpipe and the rebeck reads, even to the ballatry and the gamut of every municipal fiddler, for these are the countryman’s Arcadias, and his Monte Mayors.

    Areopagitica 2007

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