high-heeled
English
    
    Adjective
    

high-heeled shoes
- (footwear) Having tall heels.
- 1987, Robert Merrihew Adams, “Berkeley and Epistemology”, in Ernest Sosa, editor, Essays on the Philosophy of George Berkeley, page 145:- For instance, impressions in the earth, of a certain size, shape, and pattern, would normally be sufficient evidence for a confident belief that a woman had walked over the ground wearing high-heeled shoes.
 
- 2015, Eve Shapiro, Gender Circuits: Bodies and Identities in a Technological Age, page 55:- High-heeled shoes are not typically constructed to accommodate the average male's heft, foot size, or gait. All high-heeled shoes, particularly extremely thin “stiletto” heels, require technical acumen in their design because the structure of the shoe focuses immense pressure on a small area; a petite woman in stilettos can exert 20 times the pressure of a 6,000 pound elephant under her heel.
 
 
- Wearing high heels.
- 2013, Makiko Kouchi, “11: High-Heeled Shoes”, in Ravindra S. Goonetilleke, editor, The Science of Footwear, page 267:- The foot abduction is smaller (out-toeing is smaller) in the high-heeled gait (Adrian and Karpovich, 1966; Snow and Williams, 1994; Stefanyshyn et al., 2000), or no significant difference exists between the flat-heeled and the high-heeled gait (Merrifield, 1971).
 
 
Synonyms
    
- (having tall heels): high-heel
Translations
    
having tall heels
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