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gleecraft

gleecraft noun: music; the art of music.

Noun

gleecraft (uncountable)

  1. Music; the art of music.
    • Other things earthen, as they fade and crumble, Sing deathsongs in the minor key of gleecraft.1898, William Marshall, Aarbert
    • This could be revived in the form gleecraft.1910, Poet lore, volume 21, page 251

Examples of gleecraft in a sentence

  • 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
  • Your heart sang with his gleecraft, words wondrously wrought, kennings keen with knowing.1995, Staszek, Three-hand jax & other spells:

Origin of gleecraft

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

Questions about gleecraft

What does gleecraft mean?
Gleecraft means music; the art of music.
How do you use gleecraft in a sentence?
It was the outshapen uptippening of a bad tide; but some folk are wont to forsend all deemstery of gleecraft as inwoning.
What part of speech is gleecraft?
Gleecraft is a noun.

Words near gleecraft in the dictionary

  1. glee
  2. glee club
  3. glee clubs
  4. glee-beam
  5. glee-beams
  6. gleecraft
  7. gleed
  8. Gleedonian
  9. gleeds
  10. gleeful
  11. gleefull

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