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Gleemen

Gleeman \Glee"man\, n.; pl. Gleemen. [Glee + man; AS. gle['o]man.] A name anciently given to an itinerant minstrel or musician.

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gleemen

n. (plural of gleeman English)

Usage examples of "gleemen".

There were many other rooms, all filled with lords and ladies, all with entertainers: three different gleemen in their cloaks, more jugglers and tumblers, and musicians playing flutes, bitterns, dulcimers, and lutes, plus five different sizes of fiddle, six kinds of horn, straight or curved or curled, and ten sizes of drum from tambour to kettle.

In any case, there will be a new lot of stories for the bards and gleemen to add to the cycle.

He gives gleemen and musicians the King's Gift, a bounty in silver, to perform here in the Foregate, and he sponsors horse races down by the river every day.

Other gleemen might tell tales about it, but you could say you had it in your hands.

He glared contemptuously at the gleemen and did not linger in the rooms where they were, but Rand saw little difference between him and them except for their clothes.

To support the notion that Rand and Mat wanted to be apprentice gleemen, he set aside a time each day for lessons, and that was an entertainment for the crew, as well.