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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But, for right walking, choose The fine, The strict cothurnus, Muse.
From Collected Poems Volume One by Noyes, Alfred
But, besides the cothurnus, you have heard of the mask.
From Note Book of an English Opium-Eater by De Quincey, Thomas
He wore breeches or drawers reaching to the knees, and his feet and the lower part of the leg were covered with the cothurnus, a sort of traveller's half-boot.
From Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 by Roby, John
They never speak except ore rotundo, in cothurnus, or sometimes on stilts.
From Amiel's Journal by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.
Some of the quiet characters away from the centre of great affairs are as well worth our attention as those who in high-heeled cothurnus stalk across the foreground.
From Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 3 of 3) Essay 7: W.R. Greg: A Sketch by Morley, John
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
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
They had stopped up the holes in their cuirasses with the shoulder-blades of quadrupeds, and replaced their brass cothurni with worn sandals.
From Salammbo by Flaubert, Gustave
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 Flaubert, Gustave
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