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Definition of The Ballad of Reading Gaol from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

The Ballad of Reading Gaol

 
/ðə ˌbæləd əv ˌredɪŋ ˈdʒeɪl/
 
/ðə ˌbæləd əv ˌredɪŋ ˈdʒeɪl/
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  1. a long poem by Oscar Wilde, written in 1898 after he had been in prison, about a fellow prisoner who is hanged and about the horror of prison life
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