[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

ballade \ballade"\, 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
see also:
ballad 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

ballade
     n : a poem consisting of 3 stanzas and an envoy

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