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Meaning of "poulaine" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF POULAINE

poulaine  [puːˈleɪn] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF POULAINE

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Poulaine is a noun.
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WHAT DOES POULAINE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

poulaine

Crakow (shoe)

Crakows or crackowes were a style of shoes with extremely long toes very popular in the 15th century. They were so named because the style was thought to have originated in Kraków, then the capital of Poland. They began in the late 14th century and fell from fashion after about 1480–90. They were worn by men and women, but men's were the most extravagantly long. Sometimes the point of the shoe would need support from a whalebone or a string tied to the leg to stop the point getting in the way when walking. Outdoors pattens or sandal-like clogs were usually worn underneath. The Pope and the King Henry IV of England tried to stop this practice. The antiquarian John Stow wrote at the end of the 16th century that: Poulaine at the shoemaker of Archeon — which matches the evidence of contemporary art well. Richard II married Anne of Bohemia in 1382, and "the fourth of Edward IV" is 1475, when the fashion was at its peak. The tying back to the leg is however rarely seen in the art of the period – it may have been something done when moving around, with the ties removed on arrival, or the prevalence of the habit may be exaggerated by censorious commentators.

Definition of poulaine in the English dictionary

The definition of poulaine in the dictionary is the toe of a shoe heavily tapered into a narrow point, fashionable in the 14th-15th centuries. Other definition of poulaine is a shoe made in this way.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH POULAINE


aeroplane
ˈɛərəˌpleɪn
airplane
ˈɛəˌpleɪn
blain
bleɪn
Champlain
ʃæmˈpleɪn
complain
kəmˈpleɪn
delaine
dəˈleɪn
explain
ɪkˈspleɪn
hydroplane
ˈhaɪdrəʊˌpleɪn
lain
leɪn
Laine
leɪn
lane
leɪn
lepidomelane
ˌlɛpɪˌdɒʊmɪˈleɪn
Maclean
məˈkleɪn
monoplane
ˈmɒnəʊˌpleɪn
plain
pleɪn
plane
pleɪn
sailplane
ˈseɪlˌpleɪn
slain
sleɪn
Spillane
spɪˈleɪn
underlain
ˌʌndəˈleɪn

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE POULAINE

pouke
poukit
poulard
poularde
poule
Poulenc
poulp
poult
poult-de-soie
poulter
poulterer
poultice
poultroone
poultry
poultry dealer
poultry farm
poultry farmer
poultry farming
poultryman
poultrymen

WORDS THAT END LIKE POULAINE

aine
Aquitaine
Caine
chaine
chatelaine
cocaine
cross of Lorraine
Ille-et-Vilaine
La Fontaine
Lorraine
Maine
migraine
mousseline de laine
Paine
pure laine
romaine
saine
Tamburlaine
Ukraine
Verlaine

Synonyms and antonyms of poulaine in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «poulaine» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF POULAINE

Find out the translation of poulaine to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of poulaine from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «poulaine» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

poulaine
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

poulaine
570 millions of speakers

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poulaine
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

poulaine
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

poulaine
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

poulaine
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

poulaine
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

poulaine
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

poulaine
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Poulaine
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Poulaine
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

poulaine
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

poulaine
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Poulaine
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

poulaine
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

poulaine
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

पॉलाइन
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

poulaine
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

poulaine
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

poulaine
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

poulaine
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

poulaine
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

Poulaine
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

poulaine
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

poulaine
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

poulaine
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of poulaine

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «POULAINE»

The term «poulaine» is normally little used and occupies the 140.004 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «POULAINE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «poulaine» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «poulaine» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about poulaine

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «POULAINE»

Discover the use of poulaine in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to poulaine and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Daily Life in Portugal in the Late Middle Ages
Left to right: poulaine tied to leg with laces; poulaine with a sole tied beneath it; a third style of poulaine with a sole tied beneath; boot. van could be dyed for the desired color. The most frequent colors for shoes in the fourteenth and fifteenth ...
Antonio Henrique R. de Oliveira Marques, 1971
2
Shoes and Pattens
It is possible to see on either side, close to the beginning of the 'poulaine' itself, that there are small clusters of stitches as if the thread has been tied off; from this stage on the stitching is smaller and more closely spaced, indicating that the final  ...
Francis Grew, Museum of London, Margrethe de Neergaard, 2001
3
Dictionnaire de Marine
POULAINE , Polaine , E'peron. (julioen. ' l C'est un assemblage de plusieurs piéces de bois qui font une portion decersi dk, 8C qui se terminent en pointe: on en Fait la partie del'avant du vaisseau qui s'avance la premiére en mer par une ...
Nicolas Aubin, 1702
4
Weapons of War
The first known soleret i pointed, like the soleret “it is ponlaine" (so called from poulaine, the prow of a galley), and which is wrongly considered to belong only to the fifteenth century. An incontrovertible proof that this fashion already existed in ...
Auguste Demmin
5
Medieval Celebrations: Your Guide to Planning and Hosting ...
For either the monastic or common-man look we suggest wearing sandals. For those of you who are both fashionable and daring, we have included a pattern for a poulaine. The Poulaine The poulaine was not only the most fashionable shoe ...
Daniel Diehl, Mark Donnelly, 2011
6
All About Shoes: Footwear Through the Ages
Perhaps the most notorious shoe of all time is the poulaine, whose pointed toes often reached up to 45 centimetres (18 inches) or longer. A rage among Europeans six centuries ago, the poulaine grew so long that according to some sources, ...
Bata Limited, 1994
7
The Secular Spirit: Life and Art at the End of the Middle ...
The long, pointed-toe poulaine, of French origin and especially favored by young men, has a laced opening at the side. This particular style was especially frowned upon by the clergy who complained that such shoes impeded the wearer from ...
‎1975
8
Everyday Objects: Medieval and Early Modern Material Culture ...
The French version of the shoe was often called a poulaine (meaning Polish or from Poland), a term that appears in English as an alternative or a replacement only from the latter half of the fifteenth century." However, late fourteenth-century  ...
Tara Hamling, Catherine Richardson, 2010
9
Shoes
O “Opium” mules Oxford style man's shoe by A. Biset in light brown kidskin P Postilion's boot also called, “seven league boot” Poulaine Poulaine style shoe Poulaine style shoe Princess Grace of Monaco's shoes “PullOver” Pump Pump by ...
Klaus Carl, 2014
10
The Art of the Shoe
Called pigaches, these shoes were forerunners of the poulaine style a knight named Robert le Cornu is credited with introducing. The Crusaders brought the exaggerated style with its inordinately long tip back from the East. It is based on the ...
Marie-Josèphe Bossan, 2012

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «POULAINE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term poulaine is used in the context of the following news items.
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'Shoes: Pleasure and Pain' at the V&A reveals how designers craft …
And the poulaine was literally the point of the crakow shoe – a pointed toe, more precisely, whose extreme length mimicked the towering spires ... «The Independent, Jun 15»
2
From Louis XIV to Louboutin: 500 years of French footwear
Sandal, spartan, clog, poulaine, chopine, slipper, brogue, ankle strap, Mary Jane, loafer, derby, sneaker, stiletto … the sheer abundance of ... «South China Morning Post, May 15»
3
Spelling bee champ wins third in a row
He and Gokul made it to round 10 before Siddharth misspelled “poulaine,” which is the long, pointed toe of a shoe, boot or slipper worn in ... «STLtoday.com, Mar 14»
4
Medium Alan Hatfield conducting Houdini séance and doing Celtic …
'Live…from the Otherside' starts at 7 p.m. with doors opening at 6 p.m. Advance tickets are $18 and can be purchased at Poulaine's Pharmacy ... «NG News, Nov 13»
5
Pictou County in the Arts
Advance tickets can be purchased Poulaine's Pharmacy in Stellarton and Big Al's in New Glasgow. Tickets can be reserved at 755-8972. Feb. «NG News, Feb 13»
6
Psychic and spiritual medium to put on show at Celtic Circle
Advance tickets are $18 at Poulaine's Pharmacy in Stellarton and Big Al's Convenience Store in New Glasgow. Tickets at the door are $20. «NG News, Feb 13»
7
Making Fashion History: A Brief Biography of the Shoe
Soon, the toes of the shoes became wider and squared, a style referred to as duck-billed, and replaced the long, pointed toes of the poulaine. «AMOG, May 12»
8
QI: Quite interesting facts about shoes
The classic medieval pointy shoe was called a poulaine (meaning Polish) or a cracowe after the Polish city of Kraków, where they had become ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Aug 11»
9
Obama décore ses murs en noir et blanc !
PS : poulaine (terme de la marine ancienne). Synonymes : vespasienne, latrines, pissotière. patsolaar | 19 juillet 2011 19h57 | Répondre. «Le Figaro, Jul 11»
10
Brass Monkey - Bringing Tiki back!
Housed in an old Poulaine shoe store, Brass Monkey is a blast from the past. Back in the 1940s Don The Beachcomber, the worlds first Tiki-bar ... «Spotted by Locals, Mar 11»

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