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Definition of stiletto in English: stilettonounPlural stilettos stɪˈlɛtəʊstəˈlɛdoʊ 1A woman's shoe with a thin, high tapering heel. 〈主英〉细高跟女鞋 Example sentencesExamples - Shoes are now considered to be one of, if not the most important part of an outfit, be they stilettos, brogues, cowboy boots or sneakers.
- For evenings out, pair it with strappy stilettos and your favorite dangle earrings.
- I can't say I made a good shoe choice in wearing stilettos under such conditions.
- Be bold and brash in your grunge gear with loop earrings and big bangles or add chic to your feet by returning to the simple pointed court shoe or stiletto.
- Flip-flops turn into stilettos; pigtails into coiffed, cascading locks; bare faces get covered with unfortunately garish makeup.
- Become a member simply by filling out a profile, and strappy slingbacks, sexy stilettos, and melt-worthy boots are yours at about 30 percent off retail.
- She is fairly small in real life, about 5ft 5in, but tall in sling-back stilettos and fishnet stockings.
- If they are not cavalierly throwing out your stilettos, they are accusing you of wearing Wellingtons.
- Another claim for a pair of shoes was received after a woman caught the heel of her stiletto - which snapped off - in a car park drain.
- Wearing cropped trousers accompanied by either knee high boots or silver stilettos is a crime.
- She's got a collection of stilettos, Converse sneakers, ballet slippers, as well as any number of designer clothes.
- At 43-years old, you are young enough to wear a sexy stiletto sandal in a fabulous metallic that's sure to drive girlfriends wild with shoe envy.
- Today we have such a broad range in choice, we can choose from runners to stilettos or from sandals to kinky boots.
- These sites carry pictures and videos of women, usually bare foot or wearing stilettos or combat boots, doing some decidedly unpleasant things to insects and rodents.
- So bad were the second-degree burns to her feet that she was obliged to wear towelling slippers in place of the familiar high stilettos and attended her nephew Prince Edward's wedding in a wheelchair.
- As well as their own slinky shoes, the site also features boots and stilettos by the likes of Gucci and Miu Miu.
- Strappy high-heeled sandals and fabulous glitter-encrusted stilettos are more my kind of thing.
- Once she swaps stilettos for cowboy boots, scoffs on catfish and makes plum jam with her momma, you suspect that her and Andrew are never destined to make it down the aisle.
- In other shots, she is seen on the beach in a steamy ‘wet look’ image, and wandering down a hotel corridor in nothing but a men's shirt, black stockings and strappy black stilettos.
- They run a shoe shop, which is a front for a drugs operation, with Angela delivering the ‘goods’ inside pairs of stilettos and brogues, seemingly unnoticed by the local constabulary.
- 1.1 A heel on a stiletto shoe.
as modifier the rapid click of stiletto heels on pavement Example sentencesExamples - It is interesting to note that these days anything goes and you can go in a shop and buy pointed or platform shoes, stiletto or wide heels (with a choice of heights), flat or heeled sandals and trainers, even jelly shoes.
- They are lovely, with four-inch stiletto heels and sequinned straps.
- ‘Metal-tipped stiletto heels damaged floors and were often banned from public buildings’ says the text accompanying the display.
- She pulled on some ankle denim boots with a pointed toe and a stiletto heel.
- The shop owner claimed that the cloak was soiled with red wine and food stains, and that the train of the cloak had been damaged by a stiletto heel.
- Slowly, she got up pulling the stiletto heel of one of her dress shoes out of the mud at the same time.
- Even the heels of our shoes, particularly stilettos, will cause damage to wooden flooring.
- Acting purely on instinct, she brought her foot up and slammed her stilettos onto the foot behind her.
- Frontline crews working for Essex ambulance service are to be issued with body armour to protect them from hand guns, knives and spikes including hypodermic needles and even stiletto heels.
- She was face down on the living room floor with a stiletto heel in her back.
- She winced when the end of a stiletto heel dug its way into her left thigh.
- For women, the silhouette has slimmed down from chunky platforms to a flat with a low or stiletto heel.
- A Vettriano woman is beautiful but cold, and her power, sharp as her stiletto heels, lies in the effect she has on men.
- A stiletto heel touching my right foot is making me very nervous.
- Some non-plastic shoes with a good stiletto heel might be a wise investment.
Synonyms wedge, wedge heel, stiletto heel, platform heel, spike heel, cuban heel, kitten heel, louis heel, stacked heel
2A short dagger with a tapering blade. 短剑,匕首 Example sentencesExamples - The weapon wasn't a pocketknife or sheath knife, but a stiletto.
- I suddenly feared that we were journeying, unaware that we were, toward some dangerous place where the canes, grown as high and thick as a forest, would close in on us and run us through with their stiletto blades.
- But that didn't stop her from drawing out her stiletto and flinging the weapon straight at the his hand, pinning his palm straight to a tree his head rested on.
- She tried to drive her stiletto knife into his throat but he threw her off before it touched his skin.
- From the vial she poured a single drop of oil on the razor-sharp stiletto blade, and spread it along the cutting edge with a mahogany toothpick.
- He buckled on his sword belt, slipped a dagger into his boot sheath, and tucked a stiletto into his sleeve.
- He quickly ran up the hill past him and blocked his path as he drew his stiletto and pulled a short sword from his pack.
- He drives a BMW that now has a hole made by my stiletto in one of the door panels.
- It is alleged that a disguised meat cleaver, stiletto blade and a dagger were taken on to a packed British Airways Boeing 747 flight.
- But, if he can already feel the edge of the Russian's sword, at least he has let him know what a stiletto between the shoulder blades feels like.
- She flung the stiletto on the table and lunged from the sword once more.
- She brandishes a stiletto knife, telling her that she will kill her if she does.
- The figure drew out a slender stiletto dagger before hissing, ‘I am Nightcat, the bringer of your death!’
- It won't stifle you with brilliant play, but it will drive a stiletto beneath your shoulder blade when you're not looking.
- The sparse, terse prose he employed was like a stiletto knife stabbing at the underbelly of post-war Britain.
- The crew snarled like roused curs, and some made as if to stand, hands clasping the hilts of cutlasses and swords, daggers and stilettos.
- Another thing about those thin high heels: not only are they named after a weapon - the stiletto - but they exert a heavy force by concentrating your weight on a small point.
- And, in this, she has just turned her back on Tom in time for him to slip a stiletto right between the shoulder blades.
- The centrepiece of the set, a T-Rex sculpture comprised only of tennis rackets and stilettos, is a work of art in itself.
- He also taught me to use a small dagger called a stiletto.
- 2.1 A sharp-pointed tool for making eyelet holes.
(打孔眼用的)打眼锥 Example sentencesExamples - For the hand-made eyelets, punch the hole with a stiletto or a nut pick, making the hole the size of the tongue of the buckle.
OriginEarly 17th century: from Italian, diminutive of stilo 'dagger'. Rhymesallegretto, amaretto, amoretto, Canaletto, cornetto, falsetto, ghetto, larghetto, libretto, Loreto, Orvieto, ristretto, Soweto, Tintoretto, vaporetto, zucchetto Definition of stiletto in US English: stilettonounstəˈledōstəˈlɛdoʊ 1A woman's shoe with a thin, high tapering heel. 〈主英〉细高跟女鞋 Example sentencesExamples - Strappy high-heeled sandals and fabulous glitter-encrusted stilettos are more my kind of thing.
- She's got a collection of stilettos, Converse sneakers, ballet slippers, as well as any number of designer clothes.
- At 43-years old, you are young enough to wear a sexy stiletto sandal in a fabulous metallic that's sure to drive girlfriends wild with shoe envy.
- Today we have such a broad range in choice, we can choose from runners to stilettos or from sandals to kinky boots.
- Once she swaps stilettos for cowboy boots, scoffs on catfish and makes plum jam with her momma, you suspect that her and Andrew are never destined to make it down the aisle.
- Flip-flops turn into stilettos; pigtails into coiffed, cascading locks; bare faces get covered with unfortunately garish makeup.
- As well as their own slinky shoes, the site also features boots and stilettos by the likes of Gucci and Miu Miu.
- Become a member simply by filling out a profile, and strappy slingbacks, sexy stilettos, and melt-worthy boots are yours at about 30 percent off retail.
- I can't say I made a good shoe choice in wearing stilettos under such conditions.
- She is fairly small in real life, about 5ft 5in, but tall in sling-back stilettos and fishnet stockings.
- For evenings out, pair it with strappy stilettos and your favorite dangle earrings.
- So bad were the second-degree burns to her feet that she was obliged to wear towelling slippers in place of the familiar high stilettos and attended her nephew Prince Edward's wedding in a wheelchair.
- Another claim for a pair of shoes was received after a woman caught the heel of her stiletto - which snapped off - in a car park drain.
- These sites carry pictures and videos of women, usually bare foot or wearing stilettos or combat boots, doing some decidedly unpleasant things to insects and rodents.
- Be bold and brash in your grunge gear with loop earrings and big bangles or add chic to your feet by returning to the simple pointed court shoe or stiletto.
- They run a shoe shop, which is a front for a drugs operation, with Angela delivering the ‘goods’ inside pairs of stilettos and brogues, seemingly unnoticed by the local constabulary.
- If they are not cavalierly throwing out your stilettos, they are accusing you of wearing Wellingtons.
- Wearing cropped trousers accompanied by either knee high boots or silver stilettos is a crime.
- In other shots, she is seen on the beach in a steamy ‘wet look’ image, and wandering down a hotel corridor in nothing but a men's shirt, black stockings and strappy black stilettos.
- Shoes are now considered to be one of, if not the most important part of an outfit, be they stilettos, brogues, cowboy boots or sneakers.
- 1.1 A heel on such a woman's shoe.
as modifier the rapid click of stiletto heels on pavement Example sentencesExamples - She was face down on the living room floor with a stiletto heel in her back.
- Even the heels of our shoes, particularly stilettos, will cause damage to wooden flooring.
- It is interesting to note that these days anything goes and you can go in a shop and buy pointed or platform shoes, stiletto or wide heels (with a choice of heights), flat or heeled sandals and trainers, even jelly shoes.
- The shop owner claimed that the cloak was soiled with red wine and food stains, and that the train of the cloak had been damaged by a stiletto heel.
- They are lovely, with four-inch stiletto heels and sequinned straps.
- She pulled on some ankle denim boots with a pointed toe and a stiletto heel.
- Frontline crews working for Essex ambulance service are to be issued with body armour to protect them from hand guns, knives and spikes including hypodermic needles and even stiletto heels.
- Acting purely on instinct, she brought her foot up and slammed her stilettos onto the foot behind her.
- A stiletto heel touching my right foot is making me very nervous.
- Slowly, she got up pulling the stiletto heel of one of her dress shoes out of the mud at the same time.
- She winced when the end of a stiletto heel dug its way into her left thigh.
- For women, the silhouette has slimmed down from chunky platforms to a flat with a low or stiletto heel.
- Some non-plastic shoes with a good stiletto heel might be a wise investment.
- ‘Metal-tipped stiletto heels damaged floors and were often banned from public buildings’ says the text accompanying the display.
- A Vettriano woman is beautiful but cold, and her power, sharp as her stiletto heels, lies in the effect she has on men.
Synonyms wedge, wedge heel, stiletto heel, platform heel, spike heel, cuban heel, kitten heel, louis heel, stacked heel
2A short dagger with a tapering blade. 短剑,匕首 Example sentencesExamples - And, in this, she has just turned her back on Tom in time for him to slip a stiletto right between the shoulder blades.
- She tried to drive her stiletto knife into his throat but he threw her off before it touched his skin.
- She brandishes a stiletto knife, telling her that she will kill her if she does.
- But, if he can already feel the edge of the Russian's sword, at least he has let him know what a stiletto between the shoulder blades feels like.
- It is alleged that a disguised meat cleaver, stiletto blade and a dagger were taken on to a packed British Airways Boeing 747 flight.
- He drives a BMW that now has a hole made by my stiletto in one of the door panels.
- But that didn't stop her from drawing out her stiletto and flinging the weapon straight at the his hand, pinning his palm straight to a tree his head rested on.
- Another thing about those thin high heels: not only are they named after a weapon - the stiletto - but they exert a heavy force by concentrating your weight on a small point.
- The crew snarled like roused curs, and some made as if to stand, hands clasping the hilts of cutlasses and swords, daggers and stilettos.
- The figure drew out a slender stiletto dagger before hissing, ‘I am Nightcat, the bringer of your death!’
- He quickly ran up the hill past him and blocked his path as he drew his stiletto and pulled a short sword from his pack.
- He buckled on his sword belt, slipped a dagger into his boot sheath, and tucked a stiletto into his sleeve.
- The centrepiece of the set, a T-Rex sculpture comprised only of tennis rackets and stilettos, is a work of art in itself.
- She flung the stiletto on the table and lunged from the sword once more.
- From the vial she poured a single drop of oil on the razor-sharp stiletto blade, and spread it along the cutting edge with a mahogany toothpick.
- It won't stifle you with brilliant play, but it will drive a stiletto beneath your shoulder blade when you're not looking.
- The weapon wasn't a pocketknife or sheath knife, but a stiletto.
- He also taught me to use a small dagger called a stiletto.
- I suddenly feared that we were journeying, unaware that we were, toward some dangerous place where the canes, grown as high and thick as a forest, would close in on us and run us through with their stiletto blades.
- The sparse, terse prose he employed was like a stiletto knife stabbing at the underbelly of post-war Britain.
- 2.1 A sharp-pointed tool for making eyelet holes.
(打孔眼用的)打眼锥 Example sentencesExamples - For the hand-made eyelets, punch the hole with a stiletto or a nut pick, making the hole the size of the tongue of the buckle.
OriginEarly 17th century: from Italian, diminutive of stilo ‘dagger’. |