Meaning of high-heeled | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Having tall heels.
   not-comparable
2. Wearing high heels.
   not-comparable

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Examples

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Within moments the high-heeled workers of Data Air are ensconced in the air conditioned hum of their "open office."”

“By all logic, high-heeled women should not constitute a threat: but they do.”

“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).”

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