Citations:poleyn

English citations of poleyn

• c. 1464, English statue, quoted in 2021, Toni Mount, How to Survive in Medieval England, Pen and Sword History (→ISBN), page 46:

  […] the feast of Easter [1464] ... and shoes, galoches, or huseas [thigh-high boots] with any pike or poleyn that shall pass the length of two inches […]

• 1837, Robert Walsh, American Quarterly Review, page 34:

  In England , an act of parliament forbade the making of any shoes or buskins with poleyns exceeding the length of two inches . ' The pointed shoes were succeeded by wide square - toed slippers . The fashions of that time varied as much ...

• 1843, Galfridus Anglicus, Promptorium Parvulorum Sive Clericorum, Dictionarius Anglo-latinus Princeps […] , page 91:

  The epithet is applied to the pointed shoe, or poleyn, in fashion in the XVth century.

• 1953, Emily Jessie Ashdown, British costume during 19 centuries, civil and ecclesiastical, Рипол Классик (→ISBN), page 200:

  The Boots—A peculiar fashion was the wearing of soft leather boots which came to about the knees or a little higher; or the feet thrust into a pair of the broadtoed “duck-bill” shoes, which superseded the poleyns. These broad-toed shoes ...

• 2012, Mrs. Charles H. Ashdown, British Costume from Earliest Times to 1820, Courier Corporation (→ISBN)

  Shoes.—At this period the long pointed toes of the shoes are a very remarkable feature, as they probably exceeded those of any other reign. A writer of the period describing the poleyns states, “That the men wore shoes with a point ...