Pigache

The pigache, also known by other names, was a kind of shoe with a sharp upturned point at the toes that became popular in Western Europe during the Romanesque Period. The same name is also sometimes applied to earlier similar Byzantine footwear.

This article is about the 12th-century Western European shoe. It is not to be confused with poulaine.

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