[Ads-l] ballard

[Jonathan Lighter]

A CNN commentator says that Beyonce' will give either "a full performance
or a ballard."

Google shows a few exx. of "Scotch ballards" in newspapers going back to at
least 1903, plus a good number of contemporary "old ballards."


JL

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