'Ballade' definitions:
Definition of 'ballade'
(from WordNet)
noun
A poem consisting of 3 stanzas and an envoy
Definition of 'Ballade'
From: GCIDE
- Ballade \Bal*lade"\, n. [See Ballad, n.] A form of French versification, sometimes imitated in English, in which three or four rhymes recur through three stanzas of eight or ten lines each, the stanzas concluding with a refrain, and the whole poem with an envoy. [1913 Webster]