stilt
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The National Endowment for the Arts had a couple of stilt dancers from New Orleans.
From Slate ● Jul. 1, 2026
This year's carnival featured musical performances, bedazzled horses, huge dragons and dancing stilt walkers.
From BBC ● Apr. 7, 2026
“I went to them and said, ‘Hey, can we have one of those stilt walkers?’” says Slash, referring to the larger-than-life lurkers who haunt guests during the festivities.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2025
Encircling the footprint of each roundhouse were "middens," haloes of rubbish dumped from the stilt village above, included broken pots, butchered animal bone, and "coprolites" or fossilised faeces.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 20, 2024
Mrs. Cripe didn’t ring up a stilt after the farm women left, so they may have come in just for the toothpicks.
From "A Long Way from Chicago" by Richard Peck
Standing on stilts near the top of the canyon, it is surrounded by brush and dirt on either side and is more than 200 feet from the nearest house north of Mulholland.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
Choreographed dances, acrobatic tricks, a pitcher on stilts and other antics keep the entertainment flowing.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 5, 2026
Over half of it will be elevated -- a major concern for Alexandrians who fear the tree-lined track will be replaced by eyesore concrete stilts.
From Barron's ● Feb. 25, 2026
In Pono, near Hyderabad, women showed the BBC huts they'd built themselves - a large circular building on wooden stilts.
From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2025
All were long-faced and long-legged, and the stilts built into the legs of their ornate armor made them longer still.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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