Definitions for buskins

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buskins bus·kin

Spelling: [buhs-kin]

IPA: /ˈbʌs kɪn/

Buskins is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 101 anagrams from letters in buskins (biknssu).

Definitions for buskins

noun

1. a thick-soled, laced boot or half boot.
2. Also called cothurnus. the high, thick-soled shoe worn by ancient Greek and Roman tragedians.
3. buskins, stockings decorated with gold thread worn by a bishop at a Pontifical Mass.
4. tragic drama; tragedy. Compare sock1 (def 3).
5. the art of acting, especially tragic acting.
6. a woman's low-cut shoe with elastic gores at the sides of the instep, popular in the early 20th century.

Origin of buskins

1495-1505; probably alteration of Middle French bro(u)sequin, of uncertain origin

Examples for buskins

And when I questioned her, I found that they wore what might well be some kind of buskin.

Who welcome with the crowing of a cock, This hero of the buskin and sock.

Shiver my hulk, Mr. buskin, if you wore a lion's skin, I'd curry you for this.

I know his philosophies, and just why he adores buskin and disagrees with Bernard Shaw.

We virgins of Tyre are wont to carry a quiver and to wear a buskin of purple.

Here there were only two rooms, one for buskin, the maid-servant, and the other unfurnished.

He sent The Yellow buskin and was awarded a second-class medal.

It must be admitted, he has well earned his nickname 'buskin.'

Cf. Il Penseroso, 102: "the buskin'd stage;" that is, the tragic stage.

But buskin only muttered to herself, rubbed her elbow, and went quickly on.