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

Because your scald or gleeman went With seven or nine-stringed instrument Upon his back,—must ours be bent?

From The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Vol. I by Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

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

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