- Crackows
- long-pointed toes on hose, sometimes fastened with chains to the garters, forerunner to poulaines.
Medieval glossary. 2014.
Crackows
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crackow — noun 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 … Wiktionary
