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n. (plural of platform shoe English)
Usage examples of "platform shoes".
She came strolling down the sidewalk, bold as brass, on three-inch cork platform shoes.
She moved out from behind the counter to reveal a short black, leather skirt, black hose and bright red platform shoes of a style popular during the Second World War, the sixties, and now again in the nineties.
For the first time, he fit in because there were examples of him and Ofelia everywhere, a tall Dutchman and a nearly miniature black girl sitting at a table under a single Cinzano parasol that constituted a sidewalk cafe, a Mexican with a blonde jinetera taking the air in a bicycle cab, a beefy Englishman with a girl tottering on new platform shoes.
He also wondered why she was dressed like a vamp with platform shoes and carrying a big straw bag.
The man who got out was a Wilt Chamberlainsize black in a white planter's hat and a white ice cream suit with pearl buttons and black platform shoes with huge gold buckles on the sides.
Like so many Indian men, he wore high platform shoes in order to look taller than he was.
Nina asked, and looked sideways across the room at the lady with the frizzy hair, and the four-inch-high platform shoes, and the short shorts and the midriff blouse.
Most wore the blues and purples of government workers, but a few tottered by on their pointed platform shoes, expressing their distaste comat public transportation.
The French women--traditionally the most smartly dressed women in the world--wore shabby coats of sheepskin instead of wool and platform shoes of wood, so that the sound of women walking the streets of Paris resembled the clip-clop of horses' hooves.