Cuskin vs Buskin - What's the difference?
cuskin | buskin |
A half-boot.
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.6:
* 1624 , , Generall Historie , in Kupperman 1988, p. 143:
* 1819 , (Walter Scott), Ivanhoe :
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* 1997 , (John Julius Norwich), A Short History of Byzantium , Penguin 1998, p. 248:
A type of boot worn by the ancient Athenian tragic actors; tragic drama, tragedy.
* 1857 , , Volume the Second, page 148 (ISBN 1857150570)
An instrument of torture for the foot; bootikin.
As nouns the difference between cuskin and buskin
is that cuskin is (obsolete) a kind of drinking cup while buskin is a half-boot.buskin
English
Noun
(en noun)- She, having hong upon a bough on high / Her bow and painted quiver, had unlaste / Her silver buskins from her nimble thigh [...].
- With this knife also, he will joynt a Deere, or any beast, shape his shooes, buskins , mantels, etc.
- Isaac, relieved of one half of his apprehensions, by learning that his daughter lived, and might possibly be ransomed, threw himself at the feet of the generous Outlaw, and, rubbing his beard against his buskins , sought to kiss the hem of his green cassock.
- Alexius was acclaimed with the imperial titles and formally shod with the purple buskins , embroidered in gold with the double-headed eagles of Byzantium [...].
- Such an undertaking by no means benefits the low-heeled buskin of modern fiction.