gleeman

Example Sentences

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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

Once, wandering, a gleeman came Two years agone and sang a lay in Mark's High hall; but, see!

From The German Classics, v. 20 Masterpieces of German Literature by Various

Where the clerk or the gleeman is in question, he is sure to add a personal element, and thus to remove the song from its true communal setting.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 15 by Various

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.

His brow darkened ominously as Edwy the gleeman came forward.

From A Maid at King Alfred?s Court by Madison, Lucy Foster