BROADSIDE
Broadside
A broadside is a single sheet of inexpensive paper printed on one side, often with a ballad, rhyme, news and sometimes with woodcut illustrations. They were one of the most common forms of printed material between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries, particularly in Britain, Ireland and North America and are often associated with one of the most important forms of traditional music from these countries, the ballad.The above text is a snippet from Wikipedia: Broadside (music)
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broadside
Noun
- One side of a ship above the water line; all the guns on one side of a warship; their simultaneous firing.
- A forceful attack, be it written or spoken.
- A large sheet of paper, printed on one side and folded.
- The printed lyrics of a folk song or ballad; a broadsheet.
Verb
- To collide with something sideways on
Adverb
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