What is "cothurns"

Usage examples of "cothurns".

He wore the warrior's garb of the southlands, a shirt of metallic silver scales, short thigh-length trou­sers of some shiny, silken material, cothurns on his feet.

He stiffened, stared defiantly back, and swept his own gaze insolently over her body from the midnight hair to the diminutive cothurns on her feet.

Instead of the cothurns she wore when on the march, she had slipped her feet into tiny high-heeled san­dals that were reminiscent of the footgear he had seen in ancient pictures.

When at length the fateful march of the cothurns was stayed by the single pause in the play, and Darrow had led Miss Viner out on the balcony overhanging the square before the theatre, he turned to see if she shared his feelings.