buskins
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He then signed a formal certificate of death, and Vatican clerics dressed the body for its final appearance: golden miter, white alb, crimson and gold gloves, chasuble, buskins and slippers.
From Time Magazine Archive
There have been those whose socks and buskins were as happily quiet under pews as active on the boards.
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Replacing Douglas Fairbanks in Robin's bounding buskins is as much of a he-man's job as pinchhitting for Babe Ruth.
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Not since John Barrymore first hauled on his buskins has a young actor's fire brought such a light to so many critics' eyes.
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Have you any olde bootes, Or any old shoone: Powch-ringes, or buskins, To cope for new broome?
From A History of the Cries of London Ancient and Modern by Hindley, Charles
