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English
Adjective
Polony (not comparable)
- (obsolete or historical) Polish (especially of shoes).
2001, John Pitcher, Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England, volume 14, page 37:In Costume in the Drama of Shakespeare and his Contemporaries, M. Channing Linthicum cites two allusions to Polonian, Polonia, or Polony shoes, or to their high heels, in 1611, and two more in 1617 and 1618.
2005, Beata Biedrońska-Słota, Crossroads of Costume and Textiles in Poland, page 40:Obviously Polony heels were made in Western Europe, though at present it is not clear why this name was given to the stacked heels.
1930, A. V. Judges, The Elizabethan Underworld - a collection of Tudor and Early Stuart Tracts and Ballads: Previously published 1930 and 1965, published 2013:Such a one is in Houndsditch with us, but it is a Polony shoe with a bell, that will not be left for ten pound, because he hath it by inheritance.