Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Torch song

Torch song , noun

a popular song with a sentimental theme of unrequited love or other form of unhappiness.

Text from the public-domain GNU Collaborative International Dictionary of English, derived from Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913). Definitions marked with were added by later GCIDE contributors and are not in the original 1913 edition.

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