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TIL, while reading about "H.M.S. Pinafore" on Wikipedia, that "The British Tar" is a glee, which is "a type of English part song composed during the Late Baroque, Classical, and early Romantic periods (roughly the Georgian era)." So a glee club is a club for the singing of such songs.

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