gleeman
Americannoun
plural
gleemennoun
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
The Norman trouv�re displaced the Saxon scop, or gleeman, introducing the Fabliau and the Romance.
From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 2: Ebert to Estremadura by Various
In sooth, the tricks the gleeman gives are good also.”
From A Maid at King Alfred?s Court by Madison, Lucy Foster
It remains yet to say of him that he was ever gay and joyous as became God's gleeman.
From A Child's Book of Saints by Robinson, T. H. (Thomas Heath)
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 Geddie, John
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