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buskin'd

buskin'd is the archaic form of buskined.

Meaning of buskined

Adjective

buskined (not comparable)

  1. Wearing buskins.
    • Her buskin'd virgins traced the dewy lawn.1713, [Alexander] Pope, Windsor-Forest. […], London: […] Bernard Lintott […], →OCLC
  2. Trodden by buskins.
    • Or what (though rare) of later age, / Ennobled hath the buskined stage.a. 1645, John Milton, “Il Penseroso”, in Poems of Mr. John Milton, […], London: […] Ruth Raworth for Humphrey Mosely, […], published 1646, →OCLC
  3. Tragic, dignified or serious in style.
    • That simplicity of the Greek plot, that sobriety of Greek manners, that sustained, buskined style of expression, song making, spectacle[…]all these things lay[…]in the origins of Greek tragedy.2008, Johann Gottfried Herder, translated by Gregory Moore, Shakespeare, pages 7–8

Questions about buskin'd

What is buskin'd the archaic form of?
Buskin'd is the archaic form of buskined.

Words near buskin'd in the dictionary

  1. busket
  2. buskets
  3. Buskey
  4. Buskeys
  5. buskin
  6. buskin'd
  7. buskined
  8. busking
  9. busking it
  10. buskings
  11. buskins

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