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crakow

crakow 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

Forms of crakow

pluralcrakows

Questions about crakow

What is crakow the alternative form of?
Crakow is the alternative form of crackow.

Words near crakow in the dictionary

  1. Crakehall
  2. craker
  3. crakers
  4. crakes
  5. craking
  6. crakow
  7. crakows
  8. Crall
  9. Cralle
  10. Cralls
  11. cram

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Adapted from Wiktionary: crakow (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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