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It appeared in Medieval Latin as pigacia [3] [4] and pigatia. [5] The pigache is also known as the pigage , [ 6 ] pulley shoe , [ 7 ] [ 8 ] pulley toe , [ 1 ] or pulley-toe shoe . [ 9 ] Less often, Orderic Vitalis 's terms of opprobrium are reworked into names: scorpion's tail or ram's horn shoe . [ 10 ]
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]
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Pattens were worn during the Middle Ages outdoors, and in public places, over (outside of) the thin soled shoes of that era. Pattens were worn by both men and women during the Middle Ages, and are especially seen in art from the 15th century; a time when poulaines—shoes with very long, pointed toes—were particularly in fashion.
A modern reproduction of a medieval turnshoe; right, being sewn on a shoe last, inside out, and left, rightside-out, on another last Cross-section through the heel of a reproduction turnshoe. A turnshoe is a type of leather shoe that was used during the Middle Ages.
Bast shoes are shoes made primarily from bast — fiber taken from the bark of trees such as linden. They are a kind of basket, woven and fitted to the shape of a foot. Bast shoes are a traditional footwear of the forest areas of Northeastern Europe, formerly worn by poorer members of the Finnic peoples, Balts, Russians, and Belarusians. They ...
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Pointed or pointy shoe or shoes may refer to: Beatle boots, a variant of Chelsea boots worn in Britain and elsewhere from the 1950s to present; Calcei repandi, pointed shoes fashionable in ancient Etruscan culture; see Daily life of the Etruscans § Shoes; Ciocie, worn by Italian peasants since the medieval period