buskin

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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

Virgil assigns to Pollio the praise of alone composing poems ‘worthy of the buskin of Sophocles.’

From The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil by Sellar, W. Y.

Cothurn, kō′thurn, Cothurnus, kō-thur′nus, n. a buskin or high boot laced in front, worn in tragic performances.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various