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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 sung was the lay, 1160 The song of the gleeman; then again arose game, The bench-voice wax'd brighter, gave forth the birlers Wine of the wonder-vats.

From The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats by Anonymous

“Whither away, my merry man?” cried Wulfhere heartily, as the gleeman approached.

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

The reader need hardly be reminded that the minstrel of the middle ages was commonly jester, gleeman and story-teller all in one and in these several capacities was allowed the utmost license of speech.

From The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by John Payne

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

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

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

In burghs I am still safe, for gleemen and gleemaidens are welcomed everywhere.

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