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- noun Plural form of
pedestal .
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Examples
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She was a short plump flat-nosed woman who sighed often; her blackly gleaming pumps with their thin pedestals made her look, I thought, like Minnie Mouse.
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She was a short plump flat-nosed woman who sighed often; her blackly gleaming pumps with their thin pedestals made her look, I thought, like Minnie Mouse.
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She was a short plump flat-nosed woman who sighed often; her blackly gleaming pumps with their thin pedestals made her look, I thought, like Minnie Mouse.
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It matters to people that you are on certain pedestals.
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Made of silver, standing about four feet tall, the pedestals were the most beautiful things he had ever seen.
Test Of The Twins Weis, Margaret 1986
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Made of silver, standing about four feet tall, the pedestals were the most beautiful things he had ever seen.
Test of the Twins Weis, Margaret 1986
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On the pedestals are the names of the kings, with the length of their reigns.
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On the front of the pedestals are the arms of the Universities of
The English Spy An Original Work Characteristic, Satirical, And Humorous. Comprising Scenes And Sketches In Every Rank Of Society, Being Portraits Drawn From The Life Robert Cruikshank 1828
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There's something profoundly self destructive and limiting about putting other people on "pedestals".
Rove isn't a "genius". He's just an evil pig who fights dirty 2008
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Not enough for me to stop buying their books and it wasn’t enough that it intrudes upon my reading experienced, but their pedestals were a little tarnished.
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