Laced half-boot of Ancient Rome.
A boot reaching halfway up to the knee.
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.
6We are pleased to find a small man without the buskin, and obvious sentiments stated without affectation.
7Who, for instance, can tolerate this picture of a young man's foot shod with a blue buskin?
8This accusation is certainly true; Aristophanes often gets into the buskin; but we must examine upon what occasion.
9Here the player-bands gather at the end of their wanderings, to loosen the buskin and dust the sock.
10In real life you always get your drama mixed, and the sock of comedy galls the buskin of tragedy.
11No buskin elevation, no tragedy pomp, could mislead her; and yet poetry was poetry indeed, when she read it.
12He stooped as if to secure the erring buskin, but suddenly lifted her like a child to his shoulder.
13Over our bare feet we were wearing a sort of woven buskin which fastened with wires to the ankle disks.
14With the Restoration, however, Thespis enjoyed his own again, and sock and buskin became once more lawful articles of apparel.
15It is not a theatrical artifice of mask or buskin, to impose upon us unreal impressions of height and dignity.
16Her feet are sometimes bare, and sometimes adorned with a sort of buskin, which was worn by the huntresses of old.