See well-heeled on Wiktionary
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"etymology_text": "Originally American English, from a literal use in cockfighting: a well-heeled cock was provided with sharp spurs and could inflict maximum damage. From this developed the American frontier slang sense of being well-equipped, and thence the modern sense of being well supplied with money.",
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"ref": "2001, Salman Rushdie, Fury: A Novel, London: Jonathan Cape, →ISBN, page 4:",
"text": "On Professor Solanka’s street, well-heeled white youths lounged in baggy garments on roseate stoops, stylishly simulating indigence while they waited for the billionairedom that would surely be along sometime soon.",
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"ref": "2019 April 10, Adrian Higgins, “This florist started caring for ailing orchids on the side. He’s now babysitting 13,000.”, in The Washington Post:",
"text": "The world changes, consumerism marches on, and things once considered luxuries for the well-heeled are now taken for granted by us all — homes with 2½ bathrooms, air travel, cars with power windows.",
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"ref": "2021 July 25, Claire Armitstead, “Jeanette Winterson: ‘The male push is to discard the planet: all the boys are going off into space’”, in The Guardian:",
"text": "These public artworks only arrived a few weeks ago, Winterson explains, as part of a grand plan to pedestrianise the area, and make it more buzzy, just at the moment that the sort of well-heeled office workers who bought upmarket chocolates are abandoning it owing to the Covid pandemic.",
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"ref": "2023 February 22, “Stop & Examine”, in RAIL, number 977, page 71:",
"text": "Mum had worked there as a teenager and once recalled her duty of having to meet the charabancs that brought the well-heeled to the baths from Droitwich station before the war.",
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"(colloquial) Rich, affluent, prosperous."
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"roman": "paralija",
"sense": "rich; affluent",
"word": "паралия"
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"sense": "rich; affluent",
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"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "rich; affluent",
"word": "jómódú"
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"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "rich; affluent",
"word": "tehetős"
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"sense": "rich; affluent",
"word": "pénzes"
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"roman": "sostojatelʹnyj",
"sense": "rich; affluent",
"word": "состоятельный"
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"sense": "rich; affluent",
"word": "rico"
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"sense": "rich; affluent",
"word": "próspero"
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"roman": "pîiap-prɔ́ɔm",
"sense": "rich; affluent",
"word": "เพียบพร้อม"
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"ref": "2019 April 10, Adrian Higgins, “This florist started caring for ailing orchids on the side. He’s now babysitting 13,000.”, in The Washington Post:",
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"ref": "2021 July 25, Claire Armitstead, “Jeanette Winterson: ‘The male push is to discard the planet: all the boys are going off into space’”, in The Guardian:",
"text": "These public artworks only arrived a few weeks ago, Winterson explains, as part of a grand plan to pedestrianise the area, and make it more buzzy, just at the moment that the sort of well-heeled office workers who bought upmarket chocolates are abandoning it owing to the Covid pandemic.",
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"ref": "2023 February 22, “Stop & Examine”, in RAIL, number 977, page 71:",
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"sense": "rich; affluent",
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"sense": "rich; affluent",
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"sense": "rich; affluent",
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"sense": "rich; affluent",
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"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "rich; affluent",
"word": "jómódú"
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"sense": "rich; affluent",
"word": "rico"
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"sense": "rich; affluent",
"word": "próspero"
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"roman": "pîiap-prɔ́ɔm",
"sense": "rich; affluent",
"word": "เพียบพร้อม"
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"word": "well-heeled"
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