ballatry
English edit
Noun edit
ballatry
- Obsolete form of balladry.
- 1644, John Milton, Areopagitica:
- 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 […]