Buskin

Quick meaning: Buskin is a noun meaning (by extension) Tragic drama; tragedy.

Meaning

(by extension) Tragic drama; tragedy.

More Meanings

1. An instrument of torture for the foot; bootikin.
2. (Catholicism) A pontifical vestment in the form of a silk stocking, sometimes embroidered or interwoven with gold thread, reaching to the base of the knee and worn over one’s regular socks but under episcopal sandals.
3. (chiefly historical) A soft boot reaching to calf or knee height.
4. (historical) A type of soft calf- or knee-high boot that laces up the front, sometimes featuring open toes or thick soles, worn in the Greco-Roman world by hunters and horsemen, as well as by actors in Athenian tragedy.

Example Sentences

Such an undertaking by no means benefits the low-heeled buskin of modern fiction.

With this knife also, he will joynt a Deere, or any beast, shape his shooes, buskins, mantels, etc.

She, having hong upon a bough on high / Her bow and painted quiver, had unlaste / Her silver buskins from her nimble thigh […]

Alexius was acclaimed with the imperial titles and formally shod with the purple buskins, embroidered in gold with the double-headed eagles of Byzantium [...].

Word Forms

• buskins

Synonyms for buskin

Depending on context, synonyms include caliga, cothurn, cothurnus, half boot, top boot.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include half boot, top boot, brodequin, brodkin, brodekin, blucher.

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