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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The gleeman thrust them aside contemptuously with his foot.
From A Maid at King Alfred?s Court by Lucy Foster Madison
I, too, maiden, was the son of a gleeman who was the son of a gleeman, and song was my heritage even as it is thine.
From A Maid at King Alfred?s Court by Lucy Foster Madison
I like not to take the harp of a gleeman.
From A Maid at King Alfred?s Court by Lucy Foster Madison
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
Yale gleemen, who flew expensively from New Haven, sang second best, Penn State third.
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.
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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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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.
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To its ears came the ring of the laughter and the shouts of King Hrothgar’s revellers, and the sweet song of the gleemen and the melody of harps filled it with fierce hatred.
From A Book of Myths by Helen Stratton
