glee clubs

Amateur choral groups

A glee club is a choral group, typically at a school or college, that performs short songs.

The name comes from the glee, an 18th-century English part-song for male voices.

American glee clubs flourished on campuses through the mid-20th century: He sang tenor in the glee club.

The term now sounds somewhat old-fashioned.

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