buskin
Example Sentences
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Buskin & Sock Sirs: In my study of drama, I find the buskin, or boot, signifies a tragedy; and the sock, similar to a light moccasin, denotes a comedy.
From Time Magazine Archive
Jack Dempsey, conqueree of Gene Tunney, left the realm of sock for the Manhattan world of buskin last week.
From Time Magazine Archive
She traced her fingers over the sock and buskin masks—one sad, tragic face and one happy, comedic one—waiting for the door to open.
From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton
Such were the earliest attempts of our dramatic representations; but men must tread with naked feet before they put on the sock and buskin.
From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Isaac Disraeli
But now I hope to do easily much more of the kind, and that our new Irish players will find the buskin and the sock.
From In The Seven Woods Being Poems Chiefly of the Irish Heroic Age by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats
