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red-heeled, a.
1. Of shoes, etc.: Having red heels.
1709Steele Tatler No. 67 ⁋1, I gave Mr. Didapper a private Reprimand for wearing red-heel'd Shoes. 1725Ramsay Gentle Sheph. iv. ii, I come hame strutting in my red-heel'd shoon. 1801Mrs. Robinson Sylphid III. 66 (Jod.), His redheeled pumps for a pair of squaretoed boots. [1899H. G. Graham Soc. Life Scot. (ed. 2) 19 Young men..displaying their new fashions, their red stockings and red-heeled shoes.]
2. Wearing shoes with red heels. Also transf.
1840Thackeray Paris Sk.-bk. (1867) 395 Ancient French Tragedy, red-heeled, patched, and beperiwigged, lies in the grave. 1894Du Maurier Trilby II. 206 Lords and ladies gay—red-heeled, patched, powdered.
So redˈheelery. nonce-wd.
1818Blackw. Mag. III. 532 Whence, like a rascal's visage in the pillory, Stares, fringed and flounced with flannel, the redheelery. |