[a. F. cothurne = L. cothurnus: see COTHURNUS, the ordinary form.] = COTHURNUS.
1606. Peacham, Graphice (1612), 127. Melpomene [having] on her feet her high Cothurn or Tragick Pantofles of red Velvet and Gold.
1827. Beddoes, Lett., in Poems, p. lxxvi. [She] lays aside the mask, mantle, and cothurn.
1887. A. Lang, Myth, Ritual, & Relig., II. 233. The sacrifice of a booted calf, a calf with cothurns on its feet.
b. = COTHURNUS b.
1856. Mrs. Browning, Aur. Leigh, IV. 382. Uplifted on the cothurn half a yard Above the natural stature!
1860. Morley, Netherl. (1867), III. 284. She did not drape herself melodramatically, nor stalk about with heroic wreath and cothurn.
