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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They never speak except ore rotundo, in cothurnus, or sometimes on stilts.
From Amiel's Journal by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.
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 Edgeworth, Maria
It is the cothurnus which gives language an heroic stature.
From Among My Books Second Series by Lowell, James Russell
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 Hewlett, Maurice Henry
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 Ward, Humphry, Mrs.
Oepidus comes forth, in his stately cothurni and promises that what can be done will be done.
From Time Magazine Archive
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 marched with a bold step, rattling their heavy cothurni on the paving stones.
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
Suddenly Matho put on his cothurni, buckled on his brazen jacket of mail, and took his helmet.
From Salammbo by Flaubert, Gustave
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