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
Throwing his rein to the porter, Sergius entered the court of the atrium, vacant and resounding to the hurried tread of his cothurni.
From The Lion's Brood by Duffield Osborne
He furnished the actors with more appropriate and more magnificent dresses, invented for them more various and expressive masks, and raised their stature to the heroic size by providing them with thick-soled cothurni or buskins.
From A Smaller history of Greece From the earliest times to the Roman conquest by Sir William Smith
They marched with a bold step, rattling their heavy cothurni on the paving stones.
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
