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balladeer

noun

Etymology

From ballad + -eer.

  1. derived from ballare
  2. derived from ballada — “poem for a dance”
  3. borrowed from ballade
  4. suffixed as balladeer — “ballad + eer”

Definitions

  1. A singer, particularly a professional singer who performs ballads.

  2. To sing a ballad

    • Revisiting familiar lied texts […] or simply balladeering in The Light That Is Felt, Ives begins songs the way we expect him to and then takes us someplace we would not have thought of going.

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