gleeman
Americannoun
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gleemen
plural
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of gleeman
before 900; Middle English; Old English glēoman. See glee 1, -man
Example Sentences
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If he does as well as he used to do, Frank Moulan will get in some heavy dramatic licks as the gleeman with the croak of a frog-o.
From Time Magazine Archive
His brow darkened ominously as Edwy the gleeman came forward.
From A Maid at King Alfred?s Court by Lucy Foster Madison
Once, wandering, a gleeman came Two years agone and sang a lay in Mark's High hall; but, see!
From The German Classics, v. 20 Masterpieces of German Literature by Various
Trouvere and wandering minstrel, gleeman and eke gleemaiden, passed from place to place and from land to land repeating, altering, adapting the old stock of heroic or lovelorn ditties, or inventing new ones.
From The Balladists Famous Scots Series by John Geddie
It hath been proved by witnesses, both unbought and unlying, that thou didst take from the manor of Oswald the thegn the harp of Edwy the gleeman.
From A Maid at King Alfred?s Court by Lucy Foster Madison
At last week's concert in Cambridge, an oldtime Glee Club secretary hung on the conductor's lectern the "shingle" which used to call gleemen to rehearsal 60 years ago.
From Time Magazine Archive
Though few college gleemen now devote entire evenings to them, oldtimers' songs are by no means dead.
From Time Magazine Archive
Victorious a third year in succession, the Dartmouth gleemen took back to Hanover a silver cup given-for-keeps by Manhattan's University Glee Club.
From Time Magazine Archive
When Hrothgar's scops and gleemen sing of the past, quoting liberally from Beowulf, all those random bloody deeds are transformed into acts of loyalty, bravery, selflessness, steps to progress, and signs, even, of religious purpose.
From Time Magazine Archive
The gleemen were reciters, singers and dancers; and the lower orders were tumblers, sleight-of-hand men and general entertainers.
From The Dance (by An Antiquary) Historic Illustrations of Dancing from 3300 B.C. to 1911 A.D. by Anonymous
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