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Glee-beam

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Noun
  1. 1
    A harp. historical

    ""[…] So we do him service gladly, thronging round our noble king, While the glee-beams at the banquet with the Scêfing's praises ring.""

Etymology

Calque of Old English glēobēam (“harp”, literally “joy-wood”), equivalent to glee + beam.

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