gleeman
Americannoun
noun
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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
IX When this was seen by th' others, they took at once to flight; That same redoubted gleeman all curs'd with all their might.
From The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition by Unknown
With covetous eyes she looked upon the harp of Edwy the gleeman, and that hath she taken with her.
From A Maid at King Alfred?s Court by Madison, Lucy Foster
Bard, scald, minstrel, gleeman, with their heroic rhymes and long metrical romances, gave way in the evolution of song and harmony to the ballad-monger with his licence.
From A History of Nursery Rhymes by Green, Percy B.
Strong is the Knight of Trony, and oft in battle tried, But stronger yet the warrior who sits him there beside, Folker, the valiant gleeman; he is a dangerous man.
From The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition by Unknown
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
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
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
Yale gleemen, who flew expensively from New Haven, sang second best, Penn State third.
From Time Magazine Archive
Along with the gleemen went the glee maidens, who were the dancing and acrobatic girls of the day.
From Women of England by James, Bartlett Burleigh
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