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Kraków

British  
/ ˈkrakuf /

noun

  1. the Polish name for Cracow

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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The now Polish town renamed Bojków, some 100km from Kraków, hasn’t come to terms with its Nazi past.

From BBC • Jan. 24, 2025

In 1963, Malczewski opened a poultry stand in the market and began selling butter lambs after she found her father’s butter lamb mold that he had brought to America from Kraków.

From Salon • Mar. 28, 2024

He had found a cash machine in Kraków after needing to settle a hotel bill.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 31, 2022

Astle flew to Vienna and then Kraków, a southern Polish city that’s near the border of the Czech Republic.

From Fox News • Mar. 30, 2022

He liked the more formal attire of men in Kraków and gradually purchased several elegant suits.

From "The Boy on the Wooden Box" by Leon Leyson

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