stilt
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This year's carnival featured musical performances, bedazzled horses, huge dragons and dancing stilt walkers.
From BBC • Apr. 7, 2026
It’s shifted over the years — there were stilt walkers for a bit, and Sawdust’s historical site notes there was once a mascot in “Jelf,” part jester, part elf.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 4, 2025
Encircling the footprint of each roundhouse were "middens," haloes of rubbish dumped from the stilt village above, included broken pots, butchered animal bone, and "coprolites" or fossilised faeces.
From Science Daily • Mar. 20, 2024
Drummers, stilt walkers, trumpet players and other performers, all dressed up and lacquered in glitter, attract thousands of followers.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 12, 2024
“Stay stilt grunted the dwarf, grabbing hold of Harry’s bag and pulling him back. “Let me go!”
From "Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets" by J. K. Rowling
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