Buskin

Word BUSKIN
Character 6
Hyphenation bus kin
Pronunciations /ˈbʌskɪn/

Definitions and meanings of "Buskin"

What do we mean by buskin?

A foot and leg covering reaching halfway to the knee, resembling a laced half boot. noun

A thick-soled laced half boot worn by actors of Greek and Roman tragedies. noun

Tragedy, especially that which resembles a Greek tragedy. noun

A half-boot or high shoe strapped or laced to the ankle and the lower part of the leg. noun

A similar boot worn by the ancients; the cothurnus, particularly as worn by actors in tragedy. See cothurnus. noun

Hence Tragedy or the tragic drama, as opposed to comedy. noun

A low laced shoe worn by women. noun

Pl. Eccl., stockings forming a part of the canonicals of a bishop, usually made of satin or embroidered silk. noun

A strong, protecting covering for the foot, coming some distance up the leg. noun

A similar covering for the foot and leg, made with very thick soles, to give an appearance of elevation to the stature; -- worn by tragic actors in ancient Greece and Rome. Used as a symbol of tragedy, or the tragic drama, as distinguished from comedy. noun

A half-boot. noun

A type of boot worn by the ancient Athenian tragic actors; tragic drama, tragedy. noun

An instrument of torture for the foot; bootikin. noun

A boot reaching halfway up to the knee noun

A half-boot.

A type of half-boot with a high heel, worn by the ancient Athenian tragic actors.

(by extension) Tragic drama; tragedy.

An instrument of torture for the foot; bootikin.

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The word "buskin" in example sentences

I remembered Horace's 'Praecipe lugubres cantus, Melpomene,' and Cowley's 'I called the buskin'd muse Melpomene and told her what sad story I would write,' and suggested Melpomene, or Penthos: Melpomene was adopted. ” ❋ Airy, George Biddell, Sir (1896)

But, apart from the soldiers, neither sex wore any head covering, their thick hair seeming to afford them all the protection needed from the fierce rays of the vertical sun; but both sexes wore a kind of buskin of soft leather reaching to just below the knee, the sole consisting of a shaped piece of thick hide stitched on to the under part of the buskin. ❋ Harry Collingwood (1886)

Pierre le grand: Or, "The poker chip" and "The buskin," Bacchus, and Aphrodite (not Venus), Comus, and Momus: exalting natural virtues and rebuking hypocracy both in church and state by J. W Rogers ❋ Unknown (2009)

The costume of an Amazonian crest and plume, a tucked-up vest, and a tight buskin of sky-blue silk, buckled with diamonds, reconciled Lady Binks to the part of Hippolyta. ❋ Unknown (2008)

He cast the leathern brogue or buskin from his right foot, planted himself in a firm posture, unsheathed his sword, and first looking around to collect his resolution, he bowed three times deliberately towards the holly-tree, and as often to the little fountain, repeating at the same time, with a determined voice, the following rhyme: ❋ Unknown (2008)

Ya know, I kinda like the Roman soldier buskin look, with the laces strapped around my legs. ❋ Kludge (2007)

(Id., acte i, scene 4) — The lonely east, how wearisome to me! — would not suit a lover in comedy; the figure of the “lonely east” is too elevated for the simplicity of the buskin. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Mai fren wuz at SCA event, an da Wicked Tinkers wuz der too, buskin an stuff. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Chantilly, which appeared in yesterday's 'Musee,' the satirist, making some disgraceful allusions to the cobbler's change of name upon assuming the buskin, quoted a Latin line about which we have often conversed. ❋ Unknown (2006)

It must be the reading of tragedies that fills them with this superstition for the buskin and the pall, and not a sympathy with existing nature and the spirit of the age. ❋ Unknown (2006)

No buskin elevation, no tragedy pomp, could mislead her; and yet poetry was poetry indeed, when she read it. ❋ Unknown (2006)

I can tell thee that, if nothing else will do, I am determined, in spite of thy buskin-airs, and of thy engagements for me to the contrary, to see her myself. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Normand et demi; and, considering the denouement in the light of trick upon trick, it would undoubtedly be below the dignity of the buskin, and fitter for the sock. ❋ Unknown (2005)

But there were at times others among the spectators of the humble attempts or the brethren of the sock and buskin: the then ❋ Unknown (2004)

Our Swan of Avon hath sung his last; but we have stout old Ben, with as much learning and genius as ever prompted the treader of sock and buskin. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Such an undertaking by no means befits the low-heeled buskin of modern fiction. ❋ Unknown (2004)

In brief, after all, the landlord was compelled to give the business up for a bad job, and console himself by reflecting that what with his first overcharge, and what the audience assembled through means of the performance had expended at his house, he was in the whole a gainer, instead of a loser, by the brothers of the buskin; though he often vowed he never had been so ❋ Unknown (2004)

And when I questioned her, I found that they wore what might well be some kind of buskin. ❋ W.B. Yeats (1965)

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