buskined

[ buhs-kind ]

adjective

1. wearing buskins.
2. resembling or pertaining to tragic drama.

Other Words From

• un·buskined adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of buskined¹

First recorded in 1580–90; buskin + -ed ³

Example Sentences

The season was mid-autumn, the vintage was in full progress; the wine-press was groaning; the ruddy juice was streaming; women girt with scanty fawnskins danced as drunken Bacchanals around her: while she herself, with her hair loose and disordered, brandished the thyrsus in the midst, and Silius by her side, buskined and crowned with ivy, tossed his head to the flaunting strains of Silenus and the Satyrs.

From Project Gutenberg

“Ye of the bow and the buskin” == Diana, who was represented with a bow and buskined legs of a huntress.

From Project Gutenberg

In less precarious times, the role she is given in That Certain Woman might conceivably have evoked renewed protest from her, not that it lacks scope for her remarkable dramatic range, but because it heaps tragedy upon her with Sophoclean relentlessness, and because its wearying, buskined tread cannot pretend to vie with her more smartly-stepping 1937 successes, Marked Woman and Kid Galahad.

From Time Magazine Archive

In buskined measures move Pale Grief, and pleasing Pain, With Horror, tyrant of the throbbing breast.

From Project Gutenberg

But better pleased thee Hymettus, Fresh with the twenty brooks whose banks smelt to heaven of thyme; Better pleased thee on Hymettus the nimble-limbed, mortal huntsman, Who with the buskined foot pressed the first dews of the morn.

From Project Gutenberg