Definitions
a boot reaching halfway up to the knee
Word origin
Apparently from Old French bousequin, variant of brousequin (compare modern French brodequin), probably from Middle Dutch broseken, of unknown origin.
Used in a sentence
“She, having hong upon a bough on high / Her bow and painted quiver, had unlaste / Her silver buskins from her nimble thigh […]”
“With this knife also, he will joynt a Deere, or any beast, shape his shooes, buskins, mantels, etc.”
“Alexius was acclaimed with the imperial titles and formally shod with the purple buskins, embroidered in gold with the double-headed eagles of Byzantium [...].”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Mid-calf boot”6 letters
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