buskined

Meanings

adjectivebuskined (not comparable)

not comparableWearing buskins.
Her buskin'd virgins traced the dewy lawn.
1713, [Alexander] Pope, Windsor-Forest. […], London: […] Bernard Lintott […], →OCLC
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The Italian Diana did not, like the Grecian Artemis, speed over the mountains attended by a train of buskined nymphs.
1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume II, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 234
not comparableTrodden by buskins.
Or what (though rare) of later age, / Ennobled hath the buskined stage.
a. 1645, John Milton, “Il Penseroso”, in Poems of Mr. John Milton, […], London: […] Ruth Raworth for Humphrey Mosely, […], published 1646, →OCLC
not comparableTragic, dignified or serious in style.
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.
2008, Johann Gottfried Herder, translated by Gregory Moore, Shakespeare, pages 7–8

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