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Meanings of buskin in English
Synonyms
Examples for "cothurnus"
Examples for "cothurnus"
1
She too wears the mask and the cothurnus, and speaks to measure.
2
The cothurnus of Aeschylus has, as it were, the weight of iron: gigantic figures stalk in upon it.
3
In toga and cothurnus I had to read a pompous prologue, and did it amid shouts of Basta!
4
Is there a cothurnus in the world more tragic than these boots, whose soles are hanging out their tongues?
5
The original is in the Villa belonging to Phinius on the Lake of Larius, and which he calls Cothurnus.
Usage of buskin in English
1
Such an undertaking by no means befits the low-heeled buskin of modern fiction.
2
And her height-Tomhad only seen her walk in tragic buskin.
3
From the robe to the buskin, and now from the buskin to the sword!
4
His feet were protected with a sort of buskin; at his side hung a crude-looking metal spear.
5
We virgins of Tyre are wont to carry a quiver and to wear a buskin of purple.
6
We are pleased to find a small man without the buskin, and obvious sentiments stated without affectation.
7
Who, for instance, can tolerate this picture of a young man's foot shod with a blue buskin?
8
This accusation is certainly true; Aristophanes often gets into the buskin; but we must examine upon what occasion.
9
Here the player-bands gather at the end of their wanderings, to loosen the buskin and dust the sock.
10
In real life you always get your drama mixed, and the sock of comedy galls the buskin of tragedy.
11
No buskin elevation, no tragedy pomp, could mislead her; and yet poetry was poetry indeed, when she read it.
12
He stooped as if to secure the erring buskin, but suddenly lifted her like a child to his shoulder.
13
Over our bare feet we were wearing a sort of woven buskin which fastened with wires to the ankle disks.
14
With the Restoration, however, Thespis enjoyed his own again, and sock and buskin became once more lawful articles of apparel.
15
It is not a theatrical artifice of mask or buskin, to impose upon us unreal impressions of height and dignity.
16
Her feet are sometimes bare, and sometimes adorned with a sort of buskin, which was worn by the huntresses of old.
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