cothurnateadj.
/kəʊˈθəːnət/ Shod with the cothurnus; buskined; tragic.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > [adjective] > tragedy
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1612 T. Heywood Apol. for Actors ii. 33 With royall stile speakes our cothurnate Muse.
1635 T. Heywood Hierarchie Blessed Angells iv. 243 Sophocles the Prince of the Cothurnate Tragedie.
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1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. Cothurnated, one wearing buskins.
cothurned adj. Obsolete = cothurnated adj.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > [adjective] > tragedy
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pretragic1939
1882 Harper's Mag. Sept. 562 With peasants in blue, red, yellow, mantled and cothurned.
coˈthurnian adj.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > [adjective] > tragedy
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pretragic1939
1661 K. W. Confused Characters 127 Her feet are inveloped in her aulean or rather cothurnian buskins.
1824 New Monthly Mag. 12 152/2 Her measured cothurnian step.
†coˈthurnic n. Obsolete (in quot. quothurnicke).
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > [adjective] > tragedy
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cothurnian1661
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pretragic1939
1607 Fayre Mayde of Exchange Prol. Our Muse..to the highest pitch her wings shall reare, And prowd quothurnicke action shall devise.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > [adjective] > tragedy
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tragediala1529
tragedical1548
tragical1559
tragic1563
cothurnical1599
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cothurnian1661
tragediac1782
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pretragic1939
1599 Master Broughtons Lett. Answered viii. 28 After your saucie manner in a cothurnicall challenge.
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