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folk ballads

noun as in folk music

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Popular or folk ballads are ancient and of unknown authorship—handed down by word of mouth and varied by the transmitters.

Even this accommodated form of the folk-ballads may prove impossible in some classes.

The folk-ballads need translation here and there, and are scarcely available at all for the youngest children.

Even among the folk-ballads the same discrimination must guide us.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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