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Buskined

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Wearing buskins. not-comparable

    "Her buskin'd virgins traced the dewy lawn."

  2. 2
    Trodden by buskins. not-comparable

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

  3. 3
    Tragic, dignified or serious in style. not-comparable

    "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."

Etymology

From buskin + -ed.

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