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

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 Yeats, W. B. (William Butler)

Madam, a Thespian is of no religious persuasion, but one who treads the boards and who wears the buskin of Thespis.

From The Mesa Trail by Bedford-Jones, H.