Etymology

gleecraft

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Today it means: Music; the art of music. Full definition →

Middle English gleocræft ← Old English glēocræft
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  1. Old English · inherited fromglēocræft
  2. Middle English · inherited fromgleocræft
  3. English todaygleecraft

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

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.