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
They constructed dramas on Trojan ground; they raised on the buskin and even clasped with the sock, the feet of Homeric heroes; yet they neither imitated their Homer nor emasculated him.
From The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Vol. I by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
“Let the red buskin now your limbs invest, And the loose robe be belted to your breast; The rattling quiver let your shoulders bear— Throw off the hounds which scent the secret lair.” 122.Jos.
From History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I by John Dunlop
