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stiletto
Italian · 1600s
"a small slender dagger"
a small dagger with a slender blade, a diminutive of stilo (a stylus, dagger)
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stiletto
English · 1600s
"a slender dagger, or a thin high heel"
settled as the word for the narrow dagger, later applied to a thin high heel
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