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
It’s shifted over the years — there were stilt walkers for a bit, and Sawdust’s historical site notes there was once a mascot in “Jelf,” part jester, part elf.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2025
A major report on the remains of a stilt village that was engulfed in flames almost 3,000 years ago reveals in unprecedented detail the daily lives of England's prehistoric fenlanders.
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
Many of Raja's community, more widely known as the Onge, still live in near isolation in neat thatched homes on stilts in coastal forests.
From Barron's ● May 18, 2026
At the Blind Tiger, one of a number of bars on stilts along the waterfront, I ordered one and asked a group at the bar who made the town’s best.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 7, 2026
The Mother Ginger sequence, which usually finds young dancers emerging from the giant skirt of a dancer on stilts, is completely reimagined here.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 16, 2025
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
The shack creaked, swaying ever so slightly on its stilts, pond water lapping at the posts.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
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