Polony

polony English Adjective - en obsolete _ or _ historical en Polish (especially of shoes). en Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England 14 37 John Pitcher 2001 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. https://books.google.com/books?id=H5YmbW7LR6wC&lpg=PA37&dq=%22polony%20shoes%22&pg=PA37#v=onepage&q=%22polony%20shoes%22&f=false en Crossroads of Costume and Textiles in Poland 40 Beata Biedrońska-Słota 2005 Obviously Polony heels were made in Western Europe, though at present it is not clear why this name was given to the stacked heels. en The Elizabethan Underworld - a collection of Tudor and Early Stuart Tracts and Ballads: Previously published 1930 and 1965 2013 A. V. Judges 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. https://books.google.com/books?id=Gab5AQAAQBAJ&lpg=RA1-PA398&dq=%22polony%20shoe%22&pg=RA1-PA398#v=onepage&q=%22polony%20shoe%22&f=false 1930