buskined
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3ADJ.
sustained
VERB + BUSKINED
ennobled, manners
BUSKINED + NOUN
expression
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adj
Wearing buskins.
Her buskin'd virgins traced the dewy lawn.
Trodden by buskins.
Or what (though rare) of later age, / Ennobled hath the buskined stage.
Tragic, dignified or serious in style.
That simplicity of the Greek plot, that sobriety of Greek manners, that sustained, buskined style of expression, song making, spectacle[…]all these things lay[…]in the origins of Greek tragedy.
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3Her buskin'd virgins traced the dewy lawn.
WiktionaryOr what (though rare) of later age, / Ennobled hath the buskined stage.
WiktionaryThat simplicity of the Greek plot, that sobriety of Greek manners, that sustained, buskined style of expression, song making, spectacle[…]all these things lay[…]in the origins of Greek tragedy.
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