cothurnus
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Origin of cothurnus
1720–30; < Latin < Greek kóthornos buskin, type of boot worn by tragic actors in heroic roles
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She wears the cothurnus, and her head is wreathed with vine leaves.
From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer
But, besides the cothurnus, you have heard of the mask.
From Note Book of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas De Quincey
His is a muse which never lays aside the cothurnus, and a royalty which never puts off its crown, even in sleep.
From Amiel's Journal by Mrs. Humphry Ward
The actor on the stage is admired whilst he is elevated by the cothurnus; but young men are not to exhibit their oratorical talents always with the advantages of stage effect and decorations.
From Practical Education, Volume II by Maria Edgeworth
But is it just to exact the severity of the tragical cothurnus in light works of this description?
From Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature by John Black
Oepidus comes forth, in his stately cothurni and promises that what can be done will be done.
From Time Magazine Archive
Suddenly Matho put on his cothurni, buckled on his brazen jacket of mail, and took his helmet.
From Salammbo by Gustave Flaubert
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
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
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