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

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

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.

Now, child, let us hasten to Winchester there to find some mead hall; for where there is wassail, there is welcome for the gleeman.

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

I am innocent both in word and deed of this thing of which the gleeman accuses me.”

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