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

It hath been proved by witnesses, both unbought and unlying, that thou didst take from the manor of Oswald the thegn the harp of Edwy the gleeman.

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

“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

So, to Egwina’s relief, the harp was interred with the gleeman.

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