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stiletto
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synonyms: poniard, anlace, dirk, bodkin ???
► definition
Definition:a needle-sharp dagger originally designed as a stabbing weapon to penetrate very deeply.
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Uses:
“O, Cassy, I’m going to faint!”
“If you do, I’ll kill you!” said Cassy, drawing a small, glittering stiletto, and flashing it before the eyes of the girl.
Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852)
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Julia took off her mantle; she wore beneath it a red robe, and in a black belt which surrounded her waist, she had stuck a little stiletto with an ebony handle.
Charles Paul de Kock. The Barber of Paris
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[he] murdered him as surely as if he'd stuck a stiletto through him!
Agatha Christie. And Then There Were None. p.76 (1939)
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But Don Juan retorted that stabbing was a very useful practice in its way; that no citizen ever got stabbed unless he had made himself obnoxious to a fellow-citizen, which was a gross and indefensible piece of incivism; and that stilettos had always been considered extremely respectable instruments by a large number of deceased Andorran worthies, whose names he proceeded to recount in a long and somewhat tedious catalogue.
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—That's a good bit of steel, repeated he, examining his formidable stiletto.
James Joyce. Ulysses
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she put unobtrusively into her waistbelt the stiletto from her workbag.
Cecil Scott Forester. The African Queen, p.56 (1935)
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It felt as if twin stilettos had been planted in his flesh at the same instant.
Stephen King. The Stand (1990)
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