ballatry

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A form of balladry — ballads considered as a group; also, the sharing (transmission), making and performing of ballads, ballads as an activity, as a tradition, as a body of work, as a craft, as implying a community of singers, makers and lovers of ballads.

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Meanings

noun
  1. obsoleteObsolete form of balladry.
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    If we think to regulate printing, thereby to rectify manners, we must regulate all recreation and pastimes, all that is delightful to man. […] The villages also must have their visitors to inquire what lectures the bagpipe and the rebeck reads, even to the ballatry and the gamut of every municipal fiddler […]

    1644, John Milton, Areopagitica
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ballatry. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ballatry

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