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

“Ye of the bow and the buskin” == Diana, who was represented with a bow and buskined legs of a huntress.

From Project Gutenberg

In less precarious times, the role she is given in That Certain Woman might conceivably have evoked renewed protest from her, not that it lacks scope for her remarkable dramatic range, but because it heaps tragedy upon her with Sophoclean relentlessness, and because its wearying, buskined tread cannot pretend to vie with her more smartly-stepping 1937 successes, Marked Woman and Kid Galahad.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Project Gutenberg

But better pleased thee Hymettus, Fresh with the twenty brooks whose banks smelt to heaven of thyme; Better pleased thee on Hymettus the nimble-limbed, mortal huntsman, Who with the buskined foot pressed the first dews of the morn.

From Project Gutenberg

The muses are turned gossips; they have lost The buskined step, and clear, high-sounding phrase,— Language of gods.

From Project Gutenberg