Usually means: Elevated boot used in theater.
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  1. cothurnus: Merriam-Webster
  2. cothurnus: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cothurnus: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cothurnus: Collins English Dictionary
  5. cothurnus: Wordnik
  6. cothurnus: Wiktionary
  7. cothurnus: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. cothurnus: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Cothurnus, cothurnus: Dictionary.com
  10. Cothurnus: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Cothurnus: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. cothurnus: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. Cothurnus: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. cothurnus: FreeDictionary.org
  15. cothurnus: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ noun:  A buskin used in ancient tragedy.
▸ noun:  (figurative) The stilted style denoting ancient tragedy.

Similar:
cothurn, kothornos, carabus, crotalum, cotyle, kotylos, kotyle, krotalum, caxon, whirlicote, more...

Types:
buskin, soccus, more...

Adjectives:
tragic, antique, tragical, heeled, mental, lofty, aspiring, classic, roman, high, ancient

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Similar:
cothurn, kothornos, carabus, crotalum, cotyle, kotylos, kotyle, krotalum, caxon, whirlicote, more...

Types:
buskin, soccus, more...

Adjectives:
tragic, antique, tragical, heeled, mental, lofty, aspiring, classic, roman, high, ancient



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