buskin

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Her little feet, true realizations of the typical Andalusian or Chinese foot, and which would have been lost in Cinderella's glass slippers, were shod with half-antique buskins of a tender lilac color, sprinkled with pearls.

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He will have no flowing or trailing vestments; no "Attic buskins," no "Persian sandals."

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Attired with theatrical buskins, a Phrygian cap and a blue chlamys over a transparent tunic, she was taken to the foot of the altar and seated there.

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A lion's head for a cap, a collar, and buskins are the sole articles of dress worn.

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Onward I went, like the Ghost in Hamlet, only with very vocal buskins.

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