Usually means: Long, pointed medieval shoe style.
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  1. poulaine: Merriam-Webster
  2. poulaine: Collins English Dictionary
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  4. poulaine: Wiktionary
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  6. Poulaine, poulaine: Dictionary.com
  7. Poulaine: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. Poulaine: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. poulaine: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  10. poulaine: Grandiloquent Dictionary
  11. Poulaine: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. poulaine: FreeDictionary.org
  13. Poulaine: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ noun:  A long, pointed toe of a shoe, a style fashionable in the 14th and 15th centuries.
▸ noun:  A shoe in such a style.

Similar:
pigache, pike, pointe shoe, poupeton, toe shoe, crackow, poynado, poynard, patten, poinard, more...

Opposite:
square-toed, round-toed, blunt-toed

Types:
duck, goose, chicken, turkey, pheasant, quail, grouse, partridge, more...

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Similar:
pigache, pike, pointe shoe, poupeton, toe shoe, crackow, poynado, poynard, patten, poinard, more...

Opposite:
square-toed, round-toed, blunt-toed

Types:
duck, goose, chicken, turkey, pheasant, quail, grouse, partridge, more...



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