单词 | buskined |
释义 | buskinedadj. 1. Wearing buskins (sense 1a). ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > wearing clothing > [adjective] > wearing footwear > wearing boots > types of caligate1562 buskined1588 well booted1608 jackbooted1763 high-lowed1839 ankle-jacked1842 beetle-crushing1871 larriganed1904 gumbooted1930 1588 W. Averell Meruailous Combat of Contrarieties sig. B1v Nowe your hose hang loose like a bowe case, the next daie as straite as a pudding skinne, one while buskind for lacke of stocks, another while booted for want of shooes. ?1594 M. Drayton Peirs Gaueston sig. Bv O purple-buskind Pallas most diuine Let thy bright fauchion lend me Cypresse bowes. 1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream ii. i. 71 The bounsing Amason, Your buskind mistresse. View more context for this quotation 1656 P. Heylyn France Painted to Life 156 She is all naked save her feet, which are buskin'd. 1713 A. Pope Windsor-Forest 8 Her buskin'd Virgins. 1757 C. Arnold Poems Several Occasions 132 The trowser'd Dutchman, and the buskin'd Swede. 1832 J. Richardson Wacousta III. viii. 204 I cleared the chasm; and with one buskined foot (for my hunting costume was strictly Highland) clung firmly to the ledge. 1877 M. Oliphant Makers of Florence (ed. 2) iv. 104 A brown peasant boy of ten, with buskined legs. 1932 A. Bell Cherry Tree iv. 37 I observed a man, old but not bent, bearded and buskined. 2003 H. Calisher Sunday Jews 489 Look at that one, buskined like a medieval cowgirl. 2. a. Having a tragic style or manner; dignified, elevated, lofty. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > ornateness > [adjective] > lofty or grandiloquent magnificenta1460 statelya1525 magnifical1533 tragical1533 lofty1565 tragic1566 sublime1586 over-high1587 magnific1589 heroic1590 buskina1593 grandiloquous1593 full-mouthed1594 high-pitched1594 buskined1595 full-mouth1595 high-borne1596 altisonant1612 Roman1619 high-sounding1624 transcendent1631 magniloquent1640 loud1651 altiloquent1656 grandiloquent1656 largiloquent1656 altisonous1661 tall1670 elevate1673 grandisonous1674 sounding1683 exalted1684 grandisonant1684 grandific1727 magniloquous1727 orotund1799 superb1825 spread eagle1839 grandiose1840 magnisonanta1843 togated1868 elevated1875 mandarin1959 1595 G. Markham Most Honorable Trag. Sir R. Grinuile lxxi Rich buskin'd Seneca. 1645 T. Allen in J. Strong Joanereidos sig. A2 Those faint Rhimers which the world admir'd For buskin'd raptures. 1757 T. Gray Ode II iii. iii, in Odes 20 In buskin'd measures move Pale Grief, and pleasing Pain. 1839 H. Hallam Introd. Lit. Europe III. vi. 617 The interest serious, but not always of buskined dignity. 1841 T. De Quincey Homer & Homeridae in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Dec. 758/2 To speak in a sort of stilted, or at least buskined language. 1906 Atlantic Monthly Mar. 337/2 The trifles that called forth Macaulay's buskined rhetoric. 1994 A. Potkay Fate of Eloquence in Age of Hume iii. 145 A transition..from the old world of buskined address to the new world of easy social intercourse. b. Wearing buskins (sense 2) (chiefly figurative); of, belonging to, or designating tragedy or tragic drama. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > [adjective] > tragedy tragediousa1513 tragediala1529 tragedical1548 tragical1559 tragic1563 cothurnical1599 cothurnal1602 buskined1603 cothurnic1607 polytragic1607 cothurnate1612 cothurnian1661 tragediac1782 cothurned1882 pretragic1939 society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > a theatre > theatrical equipment or accessories > [adjective] > ancient Greek costume buskined1744 1603 T. Dekker 1603: Wonderfull Yeare sig. E4 Oh lamentable! neuer did the olde buskind tragedy beginne till now. 1629 P. Massinger Roman Actor i. i. sig. B The Greekes (to whom we owe the first inuention Both of the buskind scæne and humble stocke). a1667 A. Cowley To Reader in Wks. (1708) II. sig. A4 I Call'd the Buskin'd Muse, Melpomene, And told her what sad Story I would write. 1744 E. Young Complaint: Night the Sixth 18 See the buskin'd Chief Unshod..Reduc'd to his own Stature. 1788 Trifler No. 2. 21 The buskin'd and sock'd inhabitants of Drury-lane and Covent-garden. 1820 W. Hazlitt Lect. Dramatic Lit. 135 They would be ranted on the stage by some buskined hero or tragedy queen. 1861 Times 17 Dec. 6/4 The more subordinate characters..often let us more into the plot than does the buskined hero himself. 1910 H. G. Wells New Machiavelli in Forum Aug. 216 Protagonist and antagonist, masked and buskined. 1995 Observer (Nexis) 13 Aug. 13 There were muddled plans for a floating pageant..with madrigalists, morris dancers and buskined thespians bumping downstream in gondolas. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1588 |
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