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A narrator of an old, long story.

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Usage examples (13)
  • Their eyes watered with the keen tang of the peat reek, till, tired with watching the squattering of ducks in farm puddles, they turned as usual upon the family sagaman,...
  • Men will dare much for the love of a woman, and that is why the sagaman records love episodes at all.
  • Love-making gets the novelist's tenderest interest and solicitude, but it receives little attention from the sagaman.
  • The sagaman has a squirrel-like agility in climbing family trees, and he is well acquainted with their interlocking branches.
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