Laced half-boot of Ancient Rome.
Sinònims
Examples for "buskin"
Examples for "buskin"
1Such an undertaking by no means befits the low-heeled buskin of modern fiction.
2And her height-Tomhad only seen her walk in tragic buskin.
3From the robe to the buskin, and now from the buskin to the sword!
4His feet were protected with a sort of buskin; at his side hung a crude-looking metal spear.
5We virgins of Tyre are wont to carry a quiver and to wear a buskin of purple.
1She too wears the mask and the cothurnus, and speaks to measure.
2The cothurnus of Aeschylus has, as it were, the weight of iron: gigantic figures stalk in upon it.
3In toga and cothurnus I had to read a pompous prologue, and did it amid shouts of Basta!
4Is there a cothurnus in the world more tragic than these boots, whose soles are hanging out their tongues?
5The original is in the Villa belonging to Phinius on the Lake of Larius, and which he calls Cothurnus.
Translations for kothornus