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A buskin is a knee- or calf-length boot made of leather or cloth, enclosed by material, and laced, from above the toes to the top of the boot, and open across the toes. [ 1 ] The word buskin, only recorded in English since 1503 meaning "half boot", is of unknown origin, perhaps from Old French brousequin (in modern French brodequin ) or ...
The near-equivalent word brodequin is an obsolete English name for a buskin or "a high boot reaching about half-way up the calves of the legs" , and was recorded as a type of boot torture. The prolific author George Ryley Scott, who repeated the tean zu ghost word, describes brodequin torture, which was used in early modern Scotland and France:
Sock and buskin are ancient symbols of comedy and tragedy. In ancient Greek theatre , actors in tragic roles wore a boot called a buskin ( Latin cothurnus ) while the actors with comedic roles wore only a thin-soled shoe called a sock (Latin soccus ).
Sneakers. This is a list of shoe styles and designs.A shoe is an item of footwear intended to protect and comfort the human foot while doing various activities. Shoes are also used as an item of decoration.
The Spanish boot was an iron casing for the leg and foot. Wood or iron wedges were hammered in between the casing and the victim's flesh. A similar device, commonly referred to as a shin crusher, squeezed the calf between two curved iron plates, studded with spikes, teeth, and knobs, to fracture the tibia and fibula.
Texas history is stitched in these boots and Medina is taking the time to make sure it endures. Medina is the owner of and boot-finder for Full Circle Vintage, a shop he started as a pop-up when ...
The poulaine proper was a shoe or boot of soft material whose elongated toe (also known as a poulaine or pike) frequently required filling to maintain its shape. The chief vogue for poulaines spread across Europe from medieval Poland in the mid-14th century and spread across Europe, reaching upper-class England with the 1382 marriage of Richard ...
The 2024 presidential election may not be until November, but polls at Cincinnati's Busken Bakery are already open.. The cookie poll, that is. The beloved bakery made the news official on its ...