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2. Buskin - Wikipedia

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   A buskin is a knee- or calf-length boot made of leather or cloth, enclosed by material, and laced, from above the toes to the top of the boot, and open across the toes. [ 1 ] The word buskin, only recorded in English since 1503 meaning "half boot", is of unknown origin, perhaps from Old French brousequin (in modern French brodequin ) or ...

3. Poulaine - Wikipedia

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   A woodcut of Kraków (Latin: Cracovia) in Poland from the 1493 Nuremberg Chronicle. The usual English name poulaine [1] [2] (/ p u ˈ l eɪ n /) is a borrowing and clipping of earlier Middle French soulers a la poulaine ("shoes in the Polish fashion") from the style's supposed origin in medieval Poland. [3]

4. Boot (torture) - Wikipedia

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   The Spanish boot was an iron casing for the leg and foot. Wood or iron wedges were hammered in between the casing and the victim's flesh. A similar device, commonly referred to as a shin crusher, squeezed the calf between two curved iron plates, studded with spikes, teeth, and knobs, to fracture the tibia and fibula.

5. Fashion boot - Wikipedia

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   A pair of women's heeled knee-high boots A pair of knee-high leather boots from Tory Burch LLC. A fashion boot is a boot worn for reasons of style or fashion (rather than for utilitarian purposes – e.g. not hiking boots, riding boots, rain boots, etc.). The term is usually applied to women's boots. Fashion boots come in a wide variety of ...

6. Sock and buskin - Wikipedia

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   Sock and buskin are ancient symbols of comedy and tragedy. In ancient Greek theatre , actors in tragic roles wore a boot called a buskin ( Latin cothurnus ) while the actors with comedic roles wore only a thin-soled shoe called a sock (Latin soccus ).

7. Women's Super League Golden Boot - Wikipedia

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   The Women's Super League Golden Boot is an annual association football award presented to the leading goalscorer in Women's Super League (WSL). The award is sponsored by Barclays . The most recent winner is Khadija Shaw who scored 21 goals in 18 games for Manchester City in the 2023–24 season . [ 1 ]