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
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
EAAR
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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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.