Meaning of buskined | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Wearing buskins.
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2. Trodden by buskins.
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3. Tragic, dignified or serious in style.
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Equivalents

Examples

“Her buskin'd virgins traced the dewy lawn.”

“Or what (though rare) of later age, / Ennobled hath the buskined stage.”

“That simplicity of the Greek plot, that sobriety of Greek manners, that sustained, buskined style of expression, song making, spectacle[…]all these things lay[…]in the origins of Greek tragedy.”

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