Crossword clues for stiletto heel
stiletto heel
Wiktionary
n. A heel of a shoe that is very high and narrow, at least 10 centimeters (4 inches.)
WordNet
n. a very high narrow heel on women's shoes [syn: spike heel]
Wikipedia
A stiletto heel is a long, thin, high heel found on some boots and shoes, usually for women.
It is named after the stiletto dagger, the phrase being first recorded in the early 1930s. Stiletto heels may vary in length from 2.5 centimetres (1 inch) to 25 cm (10 inches) or more if a platform sole is used, and are sometimes defined as having a diameter at the ground of less than 1 cm (slightly less than half an inch). Stiletto-style heels or shorter are called kitten heels.
Not all high slim heels merit the description stiletto. The extremely slender original Italian-style stiletto heels of the late 1950s and very early 1960s were no more than in diameter for much of their length, although the heel sometimes flared out a little at the top-piece (tip). After their demise in the mid-late 1960s, such slender heels were difficult to find until recently due to changes in the way heels were mass-produced. A real stiletto heel has a stem of solid steel or alloy. The more usual method of mass-producing high shoe heels, i.e. moulded plastic with an internal metal tube for reinforcement, does not achieve the true stiletto shape.
Usage examples of "stiletto heel".
It was the girl who had received him in the Cavendish Bureau and the girl who, when he left, had been holding up a shoe with a stiletto heel torn off it, and had been discussing in unhappy puzzlement how on earth she was going to get home like that.
A thin line of blood slid down one ankle and dripped off the metal tip of her stiletto heel just before she vanished completely.
In a white leather shoe with a winkle-picker toe and a three-inch stiletto heel.
Hooker had seen him around before, that was the piss-puller, seen him hanging loose with Glass-Eye Spangler (an inch to the left with that stiletto heel and they'd have been calling him Glass-Eye, too).
Darken kicked a fishnet leg at a man trying to climb on the cart, causing with a stiletto heel what bromide in your tea is reputed to take several weeks to achieve.
He raised his hips slightly, and I felt the stiletto heel press into flesh that was far too soft to be thigh.
A stiletto heel came flying out of the darkness, stabbing right into his chest.
Brown leather and not a single part of the shoe thicker than an eighth of an inch with the exception of the slim wood stacked stiletto heel, which was a quarter of an inch.