crackow

crackow
a) A type of shoe worn in the Middle Ages, with a pointy pike.

The crackows or piked shoes of Richard II. were rivalled in absurdity by the sleeves which came into fashion in the beginning of his successor’s reign,

b) The pike on this shoe.

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  • crackow — var. of crakow …   Useful english dictionary

  • poulaine — noun /puːˈleɪn/lang=en a) A long, pointed toe of a shoe, a style fashionable in the 14th and 15th centuries b) a shoe in such a style. Syn: crackow, cracow, crakow …   Wiktionary

  • GRACCHOPOLIS — postea Cracovia, teste Antonio Bonfinio, Crackow, urbs Poloniae minoris, Episcopal. et regia amplissima. Vide Carrodunum. Eius mentio fit in l. 7. Itin. sic: Hîc ubi Sarmatico se iactat in orbe Viliscum, Milia quod Gracchi distat ab urbe duo …   Hofmann J. Lexicon universale

  • SARMATIA — I. SARMATIA Tolistobogiorum in Galatia urbs, Antonin. II. SARMATIA regio latissima, ab ipsis Germaniae finibus, et Vistulâ amne in Hyrcaniam usque extensa, ubi olim Venedi, Peucini, Bastarnae etc. Vide Plin. l. 4. c. 11. et l. 6. c. 5. 13. Strab …   Hofmann J. Lexicon universale

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