buskined
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The muses are turned gossips; they have lost The buskined step, and clear, high-sounding phrase,— Language of gods.
From Lives of Celebrated Women by Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold) Goodrich
Harold led him to the stable, where just within the door stood a knot of stout hearty boys, snorting with fun, hiding their heads on each other’s shoulders, and bending their buskined knees with merriment.
From Friarswood Post Office by Charlotte Mary Yonge
Below the knee his legs were naked, ending in a buskined moccasin, that fitted tightly round the ankle.
From The Scalp Hunters by F.A. Stewart
Somewhere near that period, the two following pieces, written for "buskined boys," were performed, and being undoubtedly esteemed popular, both printed, but without dates.
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 1 by William Carew Hazlitt
“Ye of the bow and the buskin” == Diana, who was represented with a bow and buskined legs of a huntress.
From The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning by Edward Berdoe
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