halter
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The bump was on full show in the custom Atelier Prabal Gurung crop top, which the designer described as a "sculptural high-low halter top with a cascading train".
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
Silva wore a long sequined gold dress with a halter neckline paired with bangles and gold pumps.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 27, 2026
It included biker jackets adorned with bejeweled crosses and, in the finale, a halter top that featured the Virgin Mary made out of a mosaic of jewels.
From Salon ● May 17, 2026
I write down, “black halter top, belt, skirt ...” and then I go back to it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 15, 2024
The barn was darkening gradually and, in their stalls, the horses shifted their feet and rattled the halter chains.
From "Of Mice and Men" by John Steinbeck
Instead, the flies sense change with two biological gyroscopes called halteres.
From New York Times ● Mar. 19, 2014
The Greeks probably started from a standstill and swung handheld weights, known as halteres, to provide momentum on takeoff and allow them to extend their feet farther forward on landing.
From Slate ● Jul. 31, 2012
Just behind the trailing edge of each wing they had "halteres": small rods with round balls on their ends.
From Time Magazine Archive
If both halteres are removed, the insect loses its sense of equilibrium, goes into a spin, crashes.
From Time Magazine Archive
Capitulum: a small head: the enlarged tip of an antenna: the little knob at tip of halteres in Diptera: the labella or lapping tip of the mouth of certain flies.
From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by John. B. Smith
Now several of her neighbors raise goats, and the Cloughs can be seen walking their trio through town on halters, or on nearby Canfield Mountain just to get them in shape for the elk-packing season.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 17, 2020
Texas athletics spokesman John Bianco said “all established safety and security measures were in place for Bevo” at the Sugar Bowl, including two halters, two chains and six handlers to hold him.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 1, 2019
Joe and the others hurried to get halters onto their horses before cutting them loose, so they could be caught and identified later.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 29, 2018
There, she grabbed her horses’ halters and ran them to a clearing, where people with horse hauling trailers waited to take them away and firefighting helicopters landed right next to the animals.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 21, 2016
The horses stamped and snorted, and they chewed the straw of their bedding and they clashed the chains of their halters.
From "Of Mice and Men" by John Steinbeck
Andrea Pfeiffer, the owner of Chocolate Horse Farms, said that one horse refused to be haltered, so she had to leave him behind.
From New York Times ● Oct. 17, 2017
Years from now, they will be talking about how they haltered and groomed the legendary Stonestreet mare Rachel Alexandra and her beloved son Taco.
From New York Times ● May 31, 2012
He sits soulnaked, haltered in other men's finery.
From Time Magazine Archive
Shall the Man of the Year now be haltered by denial of the help he asked for in his Inaugural?
From Time Magazine Archive
Billy Buck haltered the mare Nellie and led her out of the pasture.
From "The Red Pony" by John Steinbeck
He flayed Foreign Minister Bonnet of France and the French press for criticizing the House's action in haltering Mr. Roosevelt.
From Time Magazine Archive
Rope halters have caused more horses to hurt or kill themselves than would pay for twice the cost of all the leather halters that have ever been needed for the purpose of haltering colts.
From A New Illustrated Edition of J. S. Rarey's Art of Taming Horses With the Substance of the Lectures at the Round House, and Additional Chapters on Horsemanship and Hunting, for the Young and Timid by J. S. (John Solomon) Rarey
Selling a Wife.—What is the origin of the popular idea, that a man may legally dispose of his spouse by haltering her, and exposing her for sale in a public market?
From Notes and Queries, Number 183, April 30, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc by George Bell
The directions for haltering are very complete, but to execute them with a colt or horse that paws violently, even in play, with his fore-feet, requires no common agility.
From A New Illustrated Edition of J. S. Rarey's Art of Taming Horses With the Substance of the Lectures at the Round House, and Additional Chapters on Horsemanship and Hunting, for the Young and Timid by J. S. (John Solomon) Rarey
About the best we had been able to do had been to agree not to burn down each other's frat houses while we were haltering the Freshmen.
From At Good Old Siwash by George Fitch
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