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- adjective Resembling a
ballad or some aspect of one.
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Examples
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Arranged in balladlike forms, these poems feature widowed wives and bereaved mothers dialoguing with the dead.
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Wills from Maine to Georgia strikingly resembled English wills and each other, particularly in their use of singsong, almost balladlike phrases.
A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985
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Wills from Maine to Georgia strikingly resembled English wills and each other, particularly in their use of singsong, almost balladlike phrases.
A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985
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Wills from Maine to Georgia strikingly resembled English wills and each other, particularly in their use of singsong, almost balladlike phrases.
A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985
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The former is the more otherworldly of the two, accelerating as vibrantly as the luminiscent chemical in which it is named, while the latter, which is balladlike in the folk sense of the word, is vaguely reminiscent of Neil Young.
IvyGate 2008
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