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

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

To rise would now become us," the gleeman straight replied, "She is a king's companion, and nobly born beside.

From The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition by Unknown

She reeled, and would have fallen had not the gleeman caught her.

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

Bard, scald, minstrel, gleeman, with their heroic rhymes and long metrical romances, gave way in the evolution of song and harmony to the ballad-monger with his licence.

From A History of Nursery Rhymes by Green, Percy B.