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
Once, wandering, a gleeman came Two years agone and sang a lay in Mark's High hall; but, see!
From The German Classics, v. 20 Masterpieces of German Literature by Various
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
His brow darkened ominously as Edwy the gleeman came forward.
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
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
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.
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
Cupbearers there thronged, gleemen there sung; harps gan resound, the people was in joy.
From Brut by Eugene Mason
