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
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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 gleeman sang whilom The heroes all rejoice together.
From Beowulf An Anglo-Saxon Epic Poem by Lesslie Hall
Now, child, let us hasten to Winchester there to find some mead hall; for where there is wassail, there is welcome for the gleeman.
From A Maid at King Alfred?s Court by Lucy Foster Madison
Then did my lord call for more, and the maiden asked for my harp, but, being unwilling that the sunbeam of the gleeman should go from my hands, I loaned it not.
From A Maid at King Alfred?s Court by Lucy Foster Madison
She reeled, and would have fallen had not the gleeman caught her.
From A Maid at King Alfred?s Court by Lucy Foster Madison
Though few college gleemen now devote entire evenings to them, oldtimers' songs are by no means dead.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
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 fall of Anderida was sung by our own gleemen and recorded by our own chroniclers.
From Sketches of Travel in Normandy and Maine by William Holden Hutton
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