Significatio vocis pigacia | Babel Free
[pɪˈɡa.ki.a]Definitiones
pigache, an 11th–13th century style of footwear with elongated and pointed toes.
Medieval-Latin, declension-1, feminine, historical
Exempla
“c. 1140, Orderic Vitalis, Historia Ecclesiastica, Book VIII, Ch. 10”
As one might expect since he had deformed feet, [Fulk the Rude] ordered shoes made for himself that were long and pointy at the end to hide his feet and conceal the swollen growths that are called bunions in the common tongue... whence shoemakers made scorpions' tails as it were in their footwear, which are called pigaches in the common tongue...
Gradus CEFR
B1
Medius
Hoc verbum pars est vocabularii CEFR B1 — gradus medius.
Hoc verbum pars est vocabularii CEFR B1 — gradus medius.
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