Crossword-Solution: BUSKIN
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Buskin | n. | A strong, protecting covering for the foot, coming some distance up the leg. |
| Buskin | n. | A similar covering for the foot and leg, made with very thick soles, to give an appearance of elevation to the stature; -- worn by tragic actors in ancient Greece and Rome. Used as a symbol of tragedy, or the tragic drama, as distinguished from comedy. |
We have 9 clues for the answer “BUSKIN”
| Clue | Answers |
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| BOOT lending height to actor | 1 answer |
| THICK-soled boot lending height to actor | 1 answer |
| cothurnus | 1 answer |
| tragic drama | 1 answer |
| high shoes | 3 answers |
| High boot | 5 answers |
| A BOOT REACHING HALFWAY UP TO THE KNEE | 11 answers |
| BOOT, type of | 28 answers |
| BOOT ___ | 41 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TEREA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with BUSKIN (5)
Thou, whether broad Timavus' rocky banks Thou now art passing, or dost skirt the shore Of the Illyrian main,- will ever dawn That day when I thy deeds may celebrate, Ever that day when through the whole wide world I may renown thy verse- that verse alone Of Sophoclean buskin worthy found? With thee began, to thee shall end, the strain.
This narrow boundary was soon overleaped by the spirit of the Arabs; the governors of Chorasan extended their successive inroads; and one of their triumphs was adorned with the buskin of a Turkish queen, which she dropped in her precipitate flight beyond the hills of Bochara.
Somewhere about his grinder teeth, He mouthed of thoughts that grilled beneath, And summoned Nature to her feud With bile and buskin Attitude.
Why art thou here, Come from the farthest steep of India, But that, forsooth, the bouncing Amazon, Your buskin’d mistress and your warrior love, To Theseus must be wedded; and you come To give their bed joy and prosperity? OBERON.
The sock represents the stage, in _L’Allegro_, for comedy, and the buskin, in _Il Penseroso_, for tragedy.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1995).