NOUN | poulaine | poulaines | |
NOUN article.ind sg | pl
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- poulaine {f} = Pointed toe of a shoe [a style fashionable in the 14 and 15C ] [also a shoe in such a style]
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- This is consistent with depictions of highly fashionable European men from the third quarter of the 15th century when poulaine toes were at the height of their popularity.
- Pigache, Poulaine and Pigage are types of shoe with a long pointed turned up toe that was worn during the Romanesque and Byzantine period. The plural form of the word is pigaciae.
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