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buskins

noun as in leggings

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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.

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

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.

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

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

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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