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Poulaine, pullayne, crakow, piked shoe Poulaine, derived from the old French Poulaine = Poland, referring to shoes in the Polish style. These were the designs of footwear with extended, that is piked, toes fashionable in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries but especially between 1380 and 1410 and 1460 to 1480: a fashionable trend which started early in Poland, then Italy and afterwards spread westwards. The term crakow derives from the name of the Polish city.
