high-heeled
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high-heeled (not comparable)
- (footwear) Having tall heels.
- 1987, Robert Merrihew Adams, “Berkeley and Epistemology”, in Ernest Sosa, editor, Essays on the Philosophy of George Berkeley, page 145:
- For instance, impressions in the earth, of a certain size, shape, and pattern, would normally be sufficient evidence for a confident belief that a woman had walked over the ground wearing high-heeled shoes.
- 2011, Elizabeth Ngozi Okpalaenwe, The Power to Succeed[1], page 7:
- I preferred to think about school and a government job and how I would one day put on high-heeled shoes and wear a long skirt like other girls.
- 2011, Mickey Demos, Life in Mani Today: The Road to Freedom[2], page 229:
- They wore designer clothes, white, tight, hip-huggers, and low neck blouses, high-heeled shoes, especially in the winters when they wore those sexy high-heeled boots, and tight jeans.
- 2015, Eve Shapiro, Gender Circuits: Bodies and Identities in a Technological Age[3], page 55:
- High-heeled shoes are not typically constructed to accommodate the average male's heft, foot size, or gait. All high-heeled shoes, particularly extremely thin “stiletto” heels, require technical acumen in their design because the structure of the shoe focuses immense pressure on a small area; a petite woman in stilettos can exert 20 times the pressure of a 6,000 pound elephant under her heel.
- Wearing high heels.
- 2000, Carla Freeman, High Tech and High Heels in the Global Economy: Women, Work, and Pink-Collar Identities in the Caribbean[4], page 1:
- Within moments the high-heeled workers of Data Air are ensconced in the air conditioned hum of their "open office."
- 2002, Paula Rabinowitz, Black & White & Noir: America's Pulp Modernism[5], page 174:
- By all logic, high-heeled women should not constitute a threat: but they do.
- 2013, Makiko Kouchi, “11: High-Heeled Shoes”, in Ravindra S. Goonetilleke, editor, The Science of Footwear, page 267:
- The foot abduction is smaller (out-toeing is smaller) in the high-heeled gait (Adrian and Karpovich, 1966; Snow and Williams, 1994; Stefanyshyn et al., 2000), or no significant difference exists between the flat-heeled and the high-heeled gait (Merrifield, 1971).
Synonyms edit
- (having tall heels): high-heel
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having tall heels
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Verb edit
high-heeled
- simple past and past participle of high-heel