crakow
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of crakow
1325–75; Middle English crakowe, after Cracow, the place of origin
Example Sentences
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In Crakow, as a boy, Sammler had been rich and spoiled.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Carry on de war!" rejoined he, indignantly; "wid my fader, who work in de mines; and my beautiful sisters, who walk naked about de streets of Crakow!"
From Project Gutenberg
The third act takes place in the environs of Crakow, where preparations are made for the King's entry.
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Schell was ready in three days, and we left Thorn, came to Warsaw, and passed thence, through Crakow, to Vienna.
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General Lieuwen, my kind patron, sent me, from Crakow, to conduct a hundred and forty sick men down the Vistula to Dantzic, where there were Russian vessels to receive and transport them to Riga.
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