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cothurnate, a.|kəʊˈθɜːnət|
[ad. L. cothurnāt-us, f. cothurnus: see -ate2.]
Shod with the cothurnus; buskined; tragic.
1612Heywood Apol. Actors ii. 33 With royall stile speakes our cothurnate Muse. 1635― Hierarch. iv. 243 Sophocles the Prince of the Cothurnate Tragedie.
So † cothurnated, cothurned ppl. a., buskined. coˈthurnian, † coˈthurnic (in quot. quothurnicke). † coˈthurnical a. = cothurnal.
1623Cockeram, Cothurnated, one wearing buskins. 1882Harper's Mag. LXV. 562 With peasants in blue, red, yellow, mantled and cothurned. 1661K. W. Conf. Charac., Old Hording Hagg (1860) 90 Her feet are inveloped in her aulean or rather cothurnian buskins. 1824New Monthly Mag. XII. 152 Her measured cothurnian step. 1607Heywood Fair Maid Exch. Prol., Our Muse..to the highest pitch her wings shall reare, And prowd quothurnicke action shall devise. 1599Broughton's Lett. viii. 28 After your saucie manner in a cothurnicall challenge. |