stilettos

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Waves crash along the Palm Beach shoreline and a drone shot swoops over the grounds of Mar-a-Lago before landing at a pair of stilettos donned by Melania Trump.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 31, 2026

"Watch out for the holes!" one guest warned another about the hazard for stilettos.

From Barron's • Jan. 29, 2026

His badinage is hardly Wildean, but his put-downs, honed to the sharpness of stilettos, are many people’s idea of fun.

From Salon • May 8, 2024

The main attraction of the ensemble, though, were stilettos with tennis balls at the bottom of the heels.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 25, 2024

On the flagstone paving beneath both lanterns there were old plantation pots in which Spanish daggers grew and extended their sharply pointed stilettos.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole