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
To rise would now become us," the gleeman straight replied, "She is a king's companion, and nobly born beside.
From The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition by Unknown
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
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 T. H. (Thomas Heath) Robinson
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 John Geddie
Yale gleemen, who flew expensively from New Haven, sang second best, Penn State third.
From Time Magazine Archive
Though few college gleemen now devote entire evenings to them, oldtimers' songs are by no means dead.
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
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
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