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Cothurnus

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Noun
  1. 1
    A buskin used in ancient tragedy.
  2. 2
    The stilted style denoting ancient tragedy. figuratively

    "Madame Grandoni had insisted on the fact that she was an actress, and this little speech seemed a glimpse of the cothurnus."

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin cothurnus, itself borrowed from Ancient Greek κόθορνος (kóthornos).

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