buskined

American  

[buhs-kind] / ˈbʌs kɪnd /

adjective

1. wearing buskins.

2. resembling or pertaining to tragic drama.

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Other Word Forms

• unbuskined
  adjective

Etymology

Origin of buskined

First recorded in 1580–90; buskin + -ed ³

Example Sentences

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buskined

The soft fawn-skin tilma, with its gaudy broidering of beads and stained quills—the fringed skirt and buskined ankles—the striped Navajo blanket slung scarf-like over her shoulders—all presented a true gipsy appearance.

From The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness by Reid, Mayne

In a revulsion of feeling he forgot the distance separating the buskined from the fashionable world; the tragic scatterlings from the conventions of Vanity Fair!

From The Strollers by Fisher, Harrison

Sometime let gorgeous Tragedy In sceptred pall come sweeping by, Presenting Thebes, or Pelops' line, Or the tale of Troy divine, Or what, though rare, of later age Ennobled hath the buskined stage.

From The Hundred Best English Poems by Gowans, Adam L. (Adam Luke)

In buskined measures move Pale Grief, and pleasing Pain, With Horror, tyrant of the throbbing breast.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 16 by Various

Behind these men is a buskined hero, beset by a Marshalsea Court officer and his follower.

From The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency by Trusler, John