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

So, to Egwina’s relief, the harp was interred with the gleeman.

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

Thinkest, then, that Alfred will not give shelter and food to a gleeman and maiden?

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