bush-balladry
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.71 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "It anticipated, in its emphasis on outdoor virility and the cult of the horse and its devil-may-care attitude, and to some extent even by its casually ironic meditation, the prolific bush-balladry of a decade or two later—a vogue which in its turn of course, increased the readers of Gordon."
- "Although bush-balladry may be very Australian, it has many antecedents: partly Irish and Scottish songs, partly Rudyard Kipling."
- "The Australian 'bush' or rural identity, bush-balladry, and the heroic traditions upon which they rest, speak to rhetorical propaganda of the nation-making through which colonial literature began."