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gleemen

  • plural
    of gleeman.
    gleeman
    noun
    (in medieval times) an itinerant singer; minstrel.

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Though few college gleemen now devote entire evenings to them, oldtimers' songs are by no means dead.

From Time Magazine Archive

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