ballade

ballade has 2 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 7.

Definitions

• 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.
• n.. a poem consisting of 3 stanzas and an envoy