Laced half-boot of Ancient Rome.
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Examples for "buskin "
Examples for "buskin "
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.
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 .
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