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gleecraft en · NOUN

Etymology

From Middle English gleocræft, from Old English glēocræft, glīwcræft (“music, art of music, minstrelsy”), equivalent to glee + -craft.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) Music; the art of music.
    • This could be revived in the form gleecraft. 1910, Poet lore, volume 21, page 251:
    • It was the outshapen uptippening of a bad tide; but some folk are wont to forsend all deemstery of gleecraft as inwoning. 1948, New Statesman: the week-end review
    • Other things earthen, as they fade and crumble, Sing deathsongs in the minor key of gleecraft. 1898, William Marshall, Aarbert:
    • Your heart sang with his gleecraft, words wondrously wrought, kennings keen with knowing. 1995, Staszek, Three-hand jax & other spells: