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stiletto

noun
🔊/stɪˈletəʊ/
🔊/stɪˈletəʊ/
(plural stilettos, stilettoes)
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  1. (also stiletto heel)
     (especially British English) a woman’s shoe with a very high narrow heel; the heel on such a shoe细高跟女鞋；（女鞋的）细高跟
     synonym spike heelTopics Clothes and Fashionc2
  2. a small knife with a narrow pointed blade短剑；匕首 (= cutting edge)
    3. Word Originearly 17th cent.: from Italian, diminutive of stilo ‘dagger’.