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cracowe

cracowe is the alternative spelling 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

Forms of cracowe

pluralcracowes

Questions about cracowe

What is cracowe the alternative spelling of?
Cracowe is the alternative spelling of crackow.

Words near cracowe in the dictionary

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

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