cothurns
/koʊˈθɜrnz/
noun
- Plural of cothurn; thick-soled boots worn by actors in ancient Greek and Roman tragedies.
- The costume designer carefully crafted the cothurns to match historical descriptions.
- The chorus all wore matching cothurns for the performance.
- Archaeologists found a pair of leather cothurns in the ruins of an ancient theater.
- The style or spirit of tragic drama; a grand, elevated manner.
- He spoke with cothurns, as if delivering a soliloquy from a Greek play.
- The novel's cothurns made it feel like a modern epic.
- The ceremony had a sense of cothurns, with its formal speeches and somber music.