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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The tragic actors wore the crepida, corresponding to the cothurnus, and a heavy toga, which in the praetexta had the purple border giving its name to the species.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 6 "Dodwell" to "Drama" by Various
The buskin was the Greek cothurnus, a boot with high heels, designed to add stature and dignity to the tragic actor.
From Six Centuries of English Poetry Tennyson to Chaucer by James Baldwin
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
In toga and cothurnus I had to read a pompous prologue, and did it amid shouts of "Basta! basta!" from the audience.
From The Fool Errant Being the Memoirs of Francis-Anthony Strelley, Esq., Citizen of Lucca by Maurice Henry Hewlett
But, besides the cothurnus, you have heard of the mask.
From Note Book of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas De Quincey
Oepidus comes forth, in his stately cothurni and promises that what can be done will be done.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
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
They marched with a bold step, rattling their heavy cothurni on the paving stones.
From Salammbo by Gustave Flaubert
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
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