An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
BALLADE
ballade
(noun) a poem consisting of 3 stanzas and an envoy
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
ballade (plural ballades)
(music) Any of various genres of single-movement musical pieces having lyrical and narrative elements.
(poetry) A poem of one or more triplets of seven- or eight-line stanzas, each ending with the same line as refrain, and usually an envoi; more generally, any poem in stanzas of equal length.
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Source: Wiktionary
Bal*lade", n. Etym: [See Ballad, n.]
Definition: A form of French versification, sometimes imitated in English, in which three or four rhymes recur through three stanzas of eight or ten lines each, the stanzas concluding with a refrain, and the whole poem with an envoy.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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