gleeman
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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.
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His brow darkened ominously as Edwy the gleeman came forward.
From A Maid at King Alfred?s Court by Lucy Foster Madison
I am innocent both in word and deed of this thing of which the gleeman accuses me.”
From A Maid at King Alfred?s Court by Lucy Foster Madison
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 Lucy Foster Madison
So, to Egwina’s relief, the harp was interred with the gleeman.
From A Maid at King Alfred?s Court by Lucy Foster Madison
Though few college gleemen now devote entire evenings to them, oldtimers' songs are by no means dead.
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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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Yale gleemen, who flew expensively from New Haven, sang second best, Penn State third.
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The ballads were originally the production of wandering minstrels or gleemen, a class of men very popular in the Middle Ages, who followed the profession of poetry and music.
From Six Centuries of English Poetry Tennyson to Chaucer by James Baldwin
