gleeman

Example Sentences

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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

Thinkest, then, that Alfred will not give shelter and food to a gleeman and maiden?

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

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 Madison, Lucy Foster

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 Payne, John

The accomplishments and social position of the gleeman seem to have been as varied as those of the Proven�al “joglar.”

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 1 "Gichtel, Johann" to "Glory" by Various