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.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

The gleeman thrust them aside contemptuously with his foot.

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

Because your scald or gleeman went With seven or nine-stringed instrument Upon his back,—must ours be bent?

From The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Vol. I by Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

The group consisted of several Saxons; among them, Oswald the thegn, Ælfric the juggler, Edwy the gleeman, and others.

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