c.1464, English statue, quoted in 2021, Toni Mount, How to Survive in Medieval England, Pen and Sword History (→ISBN), page 46:
[…] the feast of Easter [1464] ... and shoes, galoches, or huseas [thigh-high boots] with any pike or poleyn that shall pass the length of two inches […]
1837, Robert Walsh, American Quarterly Review, page 34:
In England , an act of parliament forbade the making of any shoes or buskins with poleyns exceeding the length of two inches . ' The pointed shoes were succeeded by wide square - toed slippers . The fashions of that time varied as much ...
The epithet is applied to the pointed shoe, or poleyn, in fashion in the XVth century.
1953, Emily Jessie Ashdown, British costume during 19 centuries, civil and ecclesiastical, Рипол Классик (→ISBN), page 200:
The Boots—A peculiar fashion was the wearing of soft leather boots which came to about the knees or a little higher; or the feet thrust into a pair of the broadtoed “duck-bill” shoes, which superseded the poleyns. These broad-toed shoes ...
2012, Mrs. Charles H. Ashdown, British Costume from Earliest Times to 1820, Courier Corporation (→ISBN)
Shoes.—At this period the long pointed toes of the shoes are a very remarkable feature, as they probably exceeded those of any other reign. A writer of the period describing the poleyns states, “That the men wore shoes with a point ...
