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- noun Plural form of
stiletto .
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Examples
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Crime so_loose_caz Hmmm why tf crime scene still here ... uhDEANuh now crime mob's "stilettoes" .. i'ma be dancing in a towel for forever!
Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7 2009
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For an angry but vocal minority, that is a change too far, yet more proof that they are the underdogs now, trampled beneath the stilettoes of supposedly over-mighty women.
Young women are now earning more than men – that's not sexist, just fair | Gaby Hinsliff 2011
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Meanwhile, in a moment that could have made her career but did not quite turn into Naomi-Campbell-does-Vivienne-Westwood, 17-year-old Lindsey Wixson tripped over in her seven-inch white metallic stilettoes at Versace.
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"When you have to be running up stairs four at a time because you're late for a meeting, you can't afford the luxury of wearing stilettoes or frou-frou dresses that need ironing," she says.
Christine Lagarde: The woman who would be the world's banker | Observer profile 2011
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I shall be in Las Vegas where 99% of women will be clad in hotpants, bras and towering stilettoes, while I march between them in a modest, knee-length dress, with warm jacket to protect against the air conditioning.
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I shall be in Las Vegas where 99% of women will be clad in hotpants, bras and towering stilettoes, while I march between them in a modest, knee-length dress, with warm jacket to protect against the air conditioning.
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Just turned and walked off and she nearly running on her stilettoes to keep up.
Poem About Never Growing Up Ryan McDermott 2010
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He dried up there abruptly, looking expectant, so I said that after such a thrilling tale I was surprised that five masked chaps with stilettoes hadn't leaped on him in the hall.
Watershed 2010
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I've swapped the Docs for stilettoes and the short, spiky hairdo is a mercifully distant memory.
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In a brick warehouse in the Arsenale there were tall women in gladiator shoes and killer stilettoes taking canapes and peach drinks from black-suited waiters while watching a giant circular screen on which actors, with only a mildly more malevolent gaze, were doing much the same.
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