crackow

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  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, […]
  2. The pike on this shoe.

词形变化

crackows plural cracow alternative crakow alternative

词源

Inherited from Middle English crakou, crawcow, named after Cracow in Poland, where they were first worn in the 14th century.
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