cothurni
- plural of cothurnus.
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 Osborne, Duffield
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 Flaubert, Gustave
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 Smith, William, Sir
Suddenly Matho put on his cothurni, buckled on his brazen jacket of mail, and took his helmet.
From Salammbo by Flaubert, Gustave
