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

I like not to take the harp of a gleeman.

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

Trouvere and wandering minstrel, gleeman and eke gleemaiden, passed from place to place and from land to land repeating, altering, adapting the old stock of heroic or lovelorn ditties, or inventing new ones.

From The Balladists Famous Scots Series by Geddie, John

“It is a sapphire, and of great worth,” said the gleeman examining it.

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

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