buskined

English

Etymology

buskin +‎ -ed

Adjective

buskined (not comparable)

1. Wearing buskins.
   • 1713, Alexander Pope, “Windsor-Forest. […]”, in The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope, volume I, London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintot, […], published 1717, →OCLC:

     Her buskin'd virgins traced the dewy lawn.

2. Trodden by buskins.
   • a. 1645, John Milton, “Il Penseroso”, in Poems of Mr. John Milton, […], London: […] Ruth Raworth for Humphrey Mosely, […], published 1646, →OCLC:

     Or what (though rare) of later age, / Ennobled hath the buskined stage.

3. Tragic, dignified or serious in style.
   • 2008, Johann Gottfried Herder, translated by Gregory Moore, Shakespeare, pages 7–8:

     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.

Anagrams

• bunkside