high heels

[ hahy heels ]

plural noun

1. women’s low-cut shoes with high, thin heels.

Word History and Origins

Origin of high heels¹

First recorded in 1640–50 as high heeles

Example Sentences

One of them is Mike Wazowski from “Monsters Inc.” in wedding lingerie and high heels.

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Serritella still wears high heels, performs in bikinis and posts videos of herself on Instagram.

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“I’m so stressed out,” said Sieck, an abortion rights activist and longtime San Francisco political operative who met Kamala Harris in 2003 at a house party where the first-time candidate stood on a milk crate in her high heels and pearls and urged partygoers to vote for her for district attorney.

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Pavone said she spent weeks as a 20-year-old entrepreneurship major doing research on the gap she saw between fashion and function in the market for women’s high heels.

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That’s where she sawed apart a pair of her high heels to see what they were made of.

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