To increase their height the tragic performers wore the cothurnus, a sort of buskin with high soles and still higher heels. |
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Mills said he had given up his trade of glue-making for the sock and buskin, and he hoped soon to have an engagement at one of the minors. |
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Consequently I may have used evidence for the Greek buskin which belonged to the Roman cotzhurnus. |
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The two books under review do get rid of the buskin and aureole. |
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Such an undertaking by no means benefits the low-heeled buskin of modern fiction. |
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