What's the difference between loafer and stilettos?
Loafer
Definition:
(n.) One who loafs; a lazy lounger.
Example Sentences:
(1) Loafers were worn sockless, with a few inches of tanned ankle.
(2) The local British brands are very attractive because of the high quality.” While they haven’t bought any Burberry goods yet, she reckons the Loake loafers her partner bought earlier are 30% cheaper than at home.
(3) In the landscape in which I work, in south India, a large tuskless male known as CMK1 or “Naadodi Ganesan”, “the village loafer Ganesan”, spends all his time around people and displays behaviour that is rather different from his fellow elephants.
(4) In the Pentagon worldview, however, there is simply no drug use, nor any factory-style drudgery, and no one in the US Air Force is, was or ever shall be light enough in the loafers to invoke The Wizard Of Oz poetically.
(5) She's trimly turned out in a tweed jacket and silver loafers.
(6) Series nine of The Apprentice ( Tue & Wed, 9pm, BBC1 ) and the winds of change are howling around Lord Sugar's tasselled loafers.
(7) Amiable, wise and pink-cheeked, with the same taste for the finer things we have witnessed in certain popes – let us remember Benedict’s red leather loafers – it’s all but impossible, once you’ve read his new novel, not to imagine how fabulous he would look in a white zucchetto , with a cape to match, and a socking great ring on his finger for journalists to kiss as they try desperately not to reveal the sin of envy in his presence (before he was a million-selling novelist, Harris was a hack just like them – and me).
(8) Spray-painted monk-strap shoes, desert boots and tasselled loafers paraded on a catwalk raised to audience eye-level in order to give a an ant's-eye view of the main event.
(9) Hirst's Prada loafers are on the floor in front of us, but his signature tinted glasses are nowhere to be seen.
(10) He will trade his famous red shoes for some brown loafers given to him in Mexico last year, but will continue to wear a cassock in the traditional papal colour of white.
(11) If you’re going out raving you might go for the Gucci loafers but for the standard day to day, it’s all about Reebok Classics or Nikes.
(12) 'Is it proper to wear tasselled loafers with a business suit or not?'"
(13) This means her look is all trainers, flats and comfy loafers, paired with loose jeans and baggy jumpers.
(14) He was not averse to this, preferring to cloak his iron self-discipline and thirst for knowledge under a crisp linen shirt, a light tan, and pair of Gucci loafers.
(15) You are the Ref No345: Zlatan Ibrahimovic Read more In what is perhaps a sign that Roman Ambramovich has been through every other manager in the world that might be willing to work with him, he is reportedly flicking through his old contact book to give some former friends a shout, with Carlo Ancelotti and Guus Hiddink the men who could fill José’s loafers.
(16) They're forcing us to travel with tiny tubes of toothpaste and moving us to wear loafers when usually we'd prefer lace-ups.
(17) What unites us is an unconditional love for France,” Marion Maréchal-Le Pen told an eclectic audience ranging from retired business leaders in smart loafers to heavy-metal fans, poor farmers, trendy teenage girls and people carrying lapdogs with bows in their hair.
(18) The Russian MP has written to the Customs Union, a grouping that includes Russia , Belarus and Kazakhstan, suggesting it introduces regulations limiting heels to 5cm in height, as well as ruling out trainers and men's loafers.
(19) At this point the penny loafer drops: they're called the 1% because they're lonely.
(20) Gucci being the key show from autumn, and the loafer with furry insides the key shoe, it was always going to be the show-off shoe for editors attending these spring shows.
Stilettos
Definition:
(pl. ) of Stiletto
Example Sentences:
(1) Some women attended the protest wearing jeans and T-shirts, while others took the mission of reclaiming the word "slut" – one of the stated objectives of the movement – more literally and turned out in overtly provocative fishnets and stilettos.
(2) Black-and-white tasselled patent-leather pumps, Madras-print sandals and neon-pink stilettos all featured.
(3) The sledgehammers and stilettos of a gendered society impact upon, and are wielded by, every man, woman and child.
(4) It is not hard to imagine her, possibly wearing her stilettos, at the wheel of a heavy vehicle: chic but tough, she's a woman who bridges the divide between cosmopolitan and traditional Africa.
(5) It was topped by a small scarlet cross between a hat and a fascinator crowned with maple leaves and tailed by equally scarlet stilettos.
(6) In an industry known for champagne-drenched parties and sequinned celebrities – and where a crisis usually refers to a snapped stiletto – this newly gritty tone is an unexpected new trend.
(7) These parasites, which were limited by a unit membrane, had a stiletto-like apex, several flagellar-like protrusions of about 3 mum in length and mostly two slender posterior protrusions.
(8) Up to 4 flagellar-like protrusions were found in cross sections originating near the base of the stiletto-like structure.
(9) The stiletto sinks in before the victim has even spotted it.
(10) Stiletto nail The style for fingernails preferred by Rihanna, Beyoncé and Jessie J.
(11) She was photographed using a free Vélib' bicycle – all very ordinary – but someone pointed out the €2,000 designer handbag in the front basket, while the inappropriate stiletto heels she sported while on the back of a scooter for another publicity shot could not go unnoticed.
(12) They're a theatrical glam-punk-metal unit who, to match the Rocky Horror-style teased black bouffant wigs, blacked-out teeth, black stiletto boots, black underwear and nude ladies painted blue, pink and yellow, play standard-issue riff'n'roll that nods to everyone from Suzi Quatro to Siouxsie Sioux, Alice Cooper to Marilyn Manson.
(13) Feminism , the pessimists say, is over, drowned in a froth of pink tulle and buried with a stiletto heel through its heart.
(14) They were clearly looking for some embarrassing quote that they could use as a political stiletto.
(15) Dressed in a sweatshirt and stilettos, the 23-year-old hosted rather than headlined, with deep feeling and sensitivity.
(16) So-called because the shape recalls the sharp shape of a stiletto heel.
(17) If all I have to do, these days, is carry around forever in my waistcoat a baby stiletto for "opening things better" – toothbrush packaging, lying "easy-open" biscuits – and stutter a bit on the phone (it's improving), then I've fallen lucky.
(18) Surely the reason to live in LA is the happy-making weather: why ruin it with metallic stilettos?
(19) Sometimes, the theme extended to their stiletto heels or possibly an elaborate bow in their hair.
(20) Weekend reports from Westminster sought to suggest that, even if David Cameron's enemies aren't preparing the poleaxe quite yet, they are sharpening their stilettos.