buskin

Meanings

Plural: buskins

Noun

• a boot reaching halfway up to the knee
• A soft boot reaching to calf or knee height.
• A pontifical vestment in the form of a silk stocking, sometimes embroidered or interwoven with gold thread, reaching to the base of the knee and worn over one’s regular socks but under episcopal sandals.
• A type of soft calf- or knee-high boot that laces up the front, sometimes featuring open toes or thick soles, worn in the Greco-Roman world by hunters and horsemen, as well as by actors in Athenian tragedy.
• Tragic drama; tragedy.
• An instrument of torture for the foot; bootikin.

Synonyms

caliga, combat boot, cothurn, cothurnus, desert boot, half boot, Melpomene, top boot