Crossword-Solution: COTHURN
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Cothurn | n. | A buskin anciently used by tragic actors on the stage; hence, tragedy in general. |
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| BOOT, type of | 28 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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Sentences with COTHURN (5)
The moment had arrived when it was thought that the mask and cothurn might again be assumed with effect; when a grave and conventional personage might decorously make his appearance to perform an interlude of clemency and moderation with satisfactory results.
Many things of this nature had been done by the new commonwealth; but, alas! she did not drape herself melodramatically, nor stalk about with heroic wreath and cothurn.
The following couplet may serve as a specimen of their eulogies: "At length Israel's muse assumes the tragic cothurn, And happily wends her way through the metre's mazes." Pensa, though the first to publish, was not the first Hebrew dramatist to write.
The moment had arrived when it was thought that the mask and the cothurn might be assumed with effect.
COTHURN, k[=o]'thurn, COTHURNUS, k[=o]-thur'nus, _n._ a buskin or high boot laced in front, worn in tragic performances.