buskined

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English

Etymology

From buskin +‎ -ed.

Adjective

buskined (not comparable)

Wearing buskins.
- 1713, [Alexander] Pope, Windsor-Forest. , London: Bernard Lintott , →OCLC:
  Her buskin'd virgins traced the dewy lawn.
Trodden by buskins.
- a. 1645, John Milton, “Il Penseroso”, in Poems of Mr. John Milton, , London: Ruth Raworth for Humphrey Mosely, , published 1646, →OCLC:
  Or what (though rare) of later age, / Ennobled hath the buskined stage.
Tragic, dignified or serious in style.
- 2008, Johann Gottfried Herder, translated by Gregory Moore, Shakespeare, pages 7–8:
  That simplicity of the Greek plot, that sobriety of Greek manners, that sustained, buskined style of expression, song making, spectacle […] all these things lay […] in the origins of Greek tragedy.

Derived terms

unbuskined

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