crackow
English
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Noun
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, […]
- 1827, Emma Roberts, Memoirs of the rival houses of York and Lancaster, Volume I, Harding and Lepard, page 242:
- The pike on this shoe