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
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
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 Madison, Lucy Foster
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
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
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.
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Though few college gleemen now devote entire evenings to them, oldtimers' songs are by no means dead.
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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.
From Time Magazine Archive
What is preserved is due mainly to the clerks and gleemen of older times, or else to the curiosity of modern antiquarians, rescuing here and there a belated survival of the species.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 15 by Various
