cothurnus
noun
a grave and elevated style of acting; tragic acting; tragedy.
cothurni
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pluralof cothurnus.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Oepidus comes forth, in his stately cothurni and promises that what can be done will be done.
From Time Magazine Archive
Matho had relapsed into his former melancholy; his legs hung down to the ground, and the grass made a continuous rustling as it beat against his cothurni.
From Salammbo by Gustave Flaubert
Such of the Ancients as held commands had come in purple cassocks, the magnificent fringes of which tangled in the white straps of their cothurni.
From Salammbo by Gustave Flaubert
He brushed the dust off her cothurni; he wanted her to put a quarter of a pomegranate between her lips; he heaped up garments behind her head to make a cushion for her.
From Salammbo by Gustave Flaubert
He wore the armour of a Roman centurion—a lorica or cuirass, made of plates of bronze, fastened to a flexible body of leather; and cothurni, or a sort of laced boots, leaching to mid-leg.
From Valeria The Martyr of the Catacombs by William Henry Withrow
