What is "buskins"

Usage examples of "buskins".

She had also discarded her ruined slippers in favor of calf high buskins with sturdy sandals strapped over them.

There was a soft, wide-brimmed grass hat, a little leather raincloak, and an extra pair of buskins to wear under her sandals.

They wore armor tunics of overlapping metal scales, and high buskins on their feet, and carried swords and shields.

The helmet, woolen trunks, mail coat, buskins, belt and long sword and dagger looked uncomfortably like stage props.

One athletic young soldier caught the loose end of the string of one of my buskins, as it hung over my instep close to the ground and pulled himself up hand over hand, amid the enthusiastic cheers of his comrades.

After an hour the buskins on my feet were torn to fragments, and I was bruised and battered as you saw me.

He unlaced his buskins and threw them to one side, took off his tunic and removed his copper bracelets and bandeau.

Prince and the knight stripped to tunic and buskins because of the heat, and surveyed the scene from the outer parapet of the lighthouse, while the skinny Blue Voice was not only robed but hooded, seated upon a stool next to the great unlit lamp while his farseeing mind's eye followed the deployment of the forces on shore.

Her feet were still shod in the Discerner's stout leather sandals, but her buskins were mostly torn to shreds.

He found Demetriosclad in brigandine and plain helmet and weighted buskins, and gripping a double-heavy practice sword, with a huge, convex body shield on his left armtrading hard blows with the White Horse Squadron's weapons master.