Citations:poleyn


 * c. 1464, English statue, quoted in 2021, Toni Mount, How to Survive in Medieval England, Pen and Sword History (ISBN 9781526754448), 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 . &#39; 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 9785874611767), 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came to about the knees or a little higher; or the feet thrust into a pair of the broadtoed “duck-bill” shoes, which superseded the poleyns.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 9780486147628)
 * 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 ...