stiletto
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1. stiletto - Noun
2. stiletto - Verb
Meaning
A kind of dagger with a slender, rounded, and pointed blade.
A pointed instrument for making eyelet holes in embroidery.
A beard trimmed into a pointed form.
To stab or kill with a stiletto.
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After the war, the replica found itself in the hands of Tadeusz Janowski who smuggled it to the United States in 1947.sfn : 140 At around that time, the short stiletto blade was replaced with a long blade of a 16th-century German sword.
In October, Strictly Come Dancing’s Johannes Radebe memorably wore stiletto heels for a choreographed tribute to New York’s Ballroom scene, with Twitter users for “shutting down toxic masculinity across the UK in 2 minutes”.
But don't count the stiletto down for the count just yet; Hudson says that WGSN is already tracking the return of the heel.
Arriving in South Korea, FLOTUS wore a deep burgundy Delpozo coat dress paired with blue-violet stiletto pumps.
Fun fact: Sydney Brown designed the first-ever biodegradable stiletto heel made from harvested German beach wood, cork, fennel, and vegetable leather and dyed in wine for color—yet another reason to appreciate the good ol’ grape!
Flip-flops, crocs, slides, stiletto heels, etc. are NOT safe footwear on escalators.