buskin

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Danh từ

noun

Plural noun:

buskins

1.
(historical)(chiefly historical) A soft boot reaching to calf or knee height.
2.
(Catholicism) A pontifical vestment in the form of a silk stocking, sometimes embroidered or interwoven with gold thread, reaching to the base of the knee and worn over one’s regular socks but under episcopal sandals.
Đồng nghĩa: caliga
3.
(historical)A type of soft calf- or knee-high boot that laces up the front, sometimes featuring open toes or thick soles, worn in the Greco-Roman world by hunters and horsemen, as well as by actors in Athenian tragedy.
Đồng nghĩa: cothurn, cothurnus, Melpomene
4.
(broadly)(by extension) Tragic drama; tragedy.
5.
An instrument of torture for the foot; bootikin.

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Đồng nghĩa

caligacothurncothurnusMelpomene

Cùng gốc / liên quan

buskinedsock and buskin

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Nguồn gốc từ

Apparently from Old French bousequin, variant of brousequin (compare modern brodequin), probably from Middle Dutch broseken, of unknown origin.