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stilt

[stilt] / stɪlt /
















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The National Endowment for the Arts had a couple of stilt dancers from New Orleans.

From Slate Jul. 1, 2026

This year's carnival featured musical performances, bedazzled horses, huge dragons and dancing stilt walkers.

From BBC Apr. 7, 2026

“I went to them and said, ‘Hey, can we have one of those stilt walkers?’” says Slash, referring to the larger-than-life lurkers who haunt guests during the festivities.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 5, 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

Mrs. Cripe didn’t ring up a stilt after the farm women left, so they may have come in just for the toothpicks.

From "A Long Way from Chicago" by Richard Peck

In others, like the one in which Estevez lives, the balconies and upper floors are propped up by wooden stilts.

From Barron's Jun. 17, 2026

The Jetsons live in the sky above Earth, on houses built on tall stilts.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 30, 2026

My family lived in a Midcentury-Modern home with a front balcony on stilts and a large backyard.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 17, 2026

The Mother Ginger sequence, which usually finds young dancers emerging from the giant skirt of a dancer on stilts, is completely reimagined here.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 16, 2025

Farmers in the floodplain build houses and barns on stilts.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann




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