buskin

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Noun

1. 1
   A soft boot reaching to calf or knee height.
2. 2
   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.
3. 3
   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.
4. 4
   Tragic drama; tragedy.
5. 5
   An instrument of torture for the foot; bootikin.