crackow
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Etymology edit
Named after Cracow in Poland, where they were first worn in the 14th century.
Noun edit
crackow (plural crackows)
- A type of shoe worn in the Middle Ages, with a pointy pike
- 1827, Emma Roberts, Memoirs of the rival houses of York and Lancaster, volume I, Harding and Lepard, page 242:
- 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, […]
- The pike on this shoe
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pointed shoe worn in the Middle Ages
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