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cracow

/ˈkɹækaʊ/US/ˈkɹækaʊ/

cracow is the alternative form of crackow.

Meaning of crackow

Noun

crackow (plural crackows)

  1. 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, […]1827, Emma Roberts, Memoirs of the rival houses of York and Lancaster, volume I, Harding and Lepard, page 242
  2. The pike on this shoe.
    Synonyms:
    poulaine

Proper noun capitalized: Cracow

Cracow

  1. (alternative) Alternative form of Krakow: A city on the Vistula River, the capital of the Lesser Poland Voivodeship in southern Poland and the former capital (until 1596) of Poland as a whole.

Forms of cracow

pluralcracows

Origin of cracow

From Middle English crakou, crawcow.

Words formed from cracow

Questions about cracow

What is cracow the alternative form of?
Cracow is the alternative form of crackow.
What part of speech is cracow?
Cracow is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce cracow?
Cracow is pronounced /ˈkɹækaʊ/ (US).

Words near cracow in the dictionary

  1. Cracov
  2. cracovian
  3. cracovians
  4. cracovienne
  5. cracoviennes
  6. cracow
  7. cracowe
  8. cracowes
  9. Cracowian
  10. Cracowians
  11. cracows

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cracow (page history and authors); Cracow (page history and authors); crackow (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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