Brewer's: Theodomas

A famous trumpeter at the siege of Thebes.

At every court ther cam loud menstralcye That never trompëd Joab for to heere, Ne he Theodomas yit half so cleere At Thebës, when the citë was in doute.

Chaucer: Canterbury Tales, 9,592.

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