How to pronounce “buskin”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• (chiefly historical) A soft boot reaching to calf or knee height.
• (Catholicism) A pontifical vestment in the form of a silk stocking, sometimes embroidered or interwoven with gold thread, reaching to the base of the knee and worn over one’s regular socks but under episcopal sandals.
• (historical) A type of soft calf- or knee-high boot that laces up the front, sometimes featuring open toes or thick soles, worn in the Greco-Roman world by hunters and horsemen, as well as by actors in Athenian tragedy.
• (by extension) Tragic drama; tragedy.
• An instrument of torture for the foot; bootikin.

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