gleemen
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pluralof gleeman.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
gleemannoun(in medieval times) an itinerant singer; minstrel.
Example Sentences
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Though few college gleemen now devote entire evenings to them, oldtimers' songs are by no means dead.
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Yale gleemen, who flew expensively from New Haven, sang second best, Penn State third.
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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.
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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.
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Along with the gleemen went the glee maidens, who were the dancing and acrobatic girls of the day.
From Women of England by Bartlett Burleigh James