buskin
- n a boot reaching halfway up to the knee
- The Kissing Bandit (MGM) pokes some good-humored fun at the buskin-and-bluster heroes of costume melodrama.
- Jack Dempsey, conqueree of Gene Tunney, left the realm of sock for the Manhattan world of buskin last week.
- Peter Hall was involved in a similar buskin-strap operation on the Royal Shakespeare Company.