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crackow

crackow

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  • cracow
  • crakow

Noun

crackow (plural crackows)

  1. 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, []
  2. The pike on this shoe

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