wineglass heel
- noun
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tacón de copa
- She admired the delicate wineglass heel on her new designer shoes.
Examples
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Walking on a wineglass heel can require some practice, especially for beginners.
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The shoe store just got a fresh collection featuring wineglass heels in various colors.
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She wore a stunning wineglass heel to the gala.
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These wineglass heels are perfect for formal events.
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She admired the delicate wineglass heel on her new designer shoes.
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The shoe store just got a fresh collection featuring wineglass heels in various colors.
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Walking on a wineglass heel can require some practice, especially for beginners.
Synonyms
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1.0
The raised back part of a shoe that lifts and supports the foot
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2.7
A woman's shoe that raises the back of the foot high
A fairly high, narrow part at the back of a shoe that curves inward
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Morphology
wineglass + heel
The meaning 'a shoe heel shaped like a wineglass' is directly derivable from combining 'wineglass' (a type of drinking glass with a distinctive concave/rounded profile) and 'heel' (the rear part of a shoe). Noun–noun compounding that describes shape or resemblance is a common, transparent pattern cross-linguistically, so a B1 learner who knows the constituent words can infer the sense without prior exposure.
Etymology
Wineglass heel comes from a simple picture: the heel looks like an upside-down wineglass, thin at the bottom, wider in the middle and narrow at the top. One popular idea is that shoemakers used that image to name this 'type of heel', so today wineglass heel means a curved women's shoe heel with that shape.