strappy

comparative strappier · superlative strappiest

1. Of or characterized by straps.

   The click-click-click of strappy stilettos has given way to the clomp-clomp-clomp of platforms and wedges on the Milan catwalk.

   2006 March 3, Hadley Freeman, The Guardian

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   Looking luminous in a yellow, strappy Cavalli dress with her sun-kissed hair cascading down her back, the pop star-turned-actress demands that the reporter shake her groove thing like Beyonce does in her hit video "Crazy in Love."

   2003 September 14, Cindy Pearlman, Chicago Sun-Times

   We read newspaper accounts of the Reagans' black-tie evenings, where the women wore long, shimmering gowns and strappy high heels and everyone toasted equally elegant foreign guests.

   2010, Laura Bush, Spoken From the Heart