Lexicographical Neighbors of Buskings
Literary usage of Buskings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Collections by Massachusetts Historical Society (1846)
"... even to wearing their stockings to their bare skin in two or three houres ;
if they be not otherwise well defended with Bootes, or buskings, ..."
2. Original Narratives of Early American History by John Franklin Jameson, American Historical Association (1910)
"... even to wearing their stockings to their bare skin in two or three houres; if
they be not otherwise well defended with Bootes, or buskings, ..."
3. English Costume by Dion Clayton Calthrop (1906)
"Pouch-rings, boots, or buskings! Will ye buy any new brooms ? ' New oysters, new
oysters! New, new cockles P ' Fresh herrings, ..."
4. The Harleian Miscellany; Or, A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and by William Oldys, John Malham (1809)
"... and their clothes not touched, and some their stockings and legs burnt and
scalded, and their outward buskings not one thread singed. ..."
5. Peter's Letters to His Kinsfolk by John Gibson Lockhart (1820)
"When inclined for a shot, I am up with Aurora, My jacket lies ready—my buskings
are brief; I speak not a word at the Manse to the snorer«, Bnt whistle to ..."
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