- Piked shoes
- 1395 to 1410 then 1460 to 1480. Long pointy-toed shoes known by the French as poulaines. Worn by all classes, but especially the fashionable.
Medieval glossary. 2014.
Piked shoes
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Crakow (shoe) — Poulaines worn in Burgundy ca. 1470 Crakows or crackowes were a style of shoes with extremely long toes very popular in the 15th century. They were so named because the style was thought to have originated in Kraków, then the capital of Poland.… … Wikipedia
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
Poulain — 1395 to 1410 then 1460 to 1480. A French term for piked shoes. Term rarely used in England … Medieval glossary
Poulaine — 1395 to 1410 then 1460 to 1480. A French term for piked shoes. Term rarely used in England … Medieval glossary
Pullayne — see Piked shoes … Medieval glossary
Crook — Crook, v. i. To bend; to curve; to wind; to have a curvature. The port . . . crooketh like a bow. Phaer. [1913 Webster] Their shoes and pattens are snouted, and piked more than a finger long, crooking upwards. Camden. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
