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How to use cothurnus in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word cothurnus? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
The cothurnus was worn principally by horsemen, hunters, and men of rank and authority.
While the actors wore the cothurnus, the chorus appeared in their usual sandals.
To increase their height the tragic performers wore the cothurnus, a sort of buskin with high soles and still higher heels.
She wears a crown of cypress and the cothurnus boots often worn by tragic actors.
Encumbered as he was with his mask and cothurnus, to say nothing of the padding, it will be seen that the Athenian tragic actor had no easy task before him.
Madame Grandoni had insisted on the fact that she was an actress, and this little speech seemed a glimpse of the cothurnus.
Examples from Classical Literature
His is a muse which never lays aside the cothurnus, and a royalty which never puts off its crown, even in sleep.
Strolling companies of players will crack the dusty boards tonight with the tread of buskin and cothurnus.
The voice of cothurnus is one of the most important things in the acting play.
They never speak except ore rotundo, in cothurnus, or sometimes on stilts.
The Jack Pudding suddenly drew the cothurnus over his clogs.
She wears the cothurnus, and her head is wreathed with vine leaves.
Is there a cothurnus in the world more tragic than these boots, whose soles are hanging out their tongues?
Agar, in peplos and cothurnus, recited the strophes once more.
She too wears the mask and the cothurnus, and speaks to measure.
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