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buskined

buskined adjective: wearing buskins.

Adjective

buskined (not comparable)

  1. Wearing buskins.
    • Her buskin'd virgins traced the dewy lawn.1713, [Alexander] Pope, Windsor-Forest. […], London: […] Bernard Lintott […], →OCLC
    • The Italian Diana did not, like the Grecian Artemis, speed over the mountains attended by a train of buskined nymphs.1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume II, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 234
  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

Origin of buskined

From buskin + -ed.

Words formed from buskined

Questions about buskined

What does buskined mean?
Buskined means wearing buskins.
What part of speech is buskined?
Buskined is an adjective.

Words near buskined in the dictionary

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

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