high-heel'd

Updated: May 10, 2025

I am an old Fellow, and extremely troubled with the Gout; but having always a strong Vanity towards being pleasing in the Eyes of Women, I never have a Moment's Ease, but I am mounted in high-heel'd Shoes with a glased Wax-leather Instep.

Joseph Addison - The Spectator, Volume 1: Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays