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In the rainy season, the lake fills up and water floods the villages, but the homes are built on stilts up to 26 feet tall, giving the impression that the houses are floating on water.
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Chaitali Patel, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 July 2024
Games feature constant music, choreographed dances, props, costumes and even a player on stilts.
—Scott Allen, Washington Post, 12 July 2024
Two beds and baths are featured within the house, which sits upon stilts that position it at tree canopy level and was in fact designed to wrap around and preserve a majestic 200-year-old pecan tree.
—Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 12 July 2024
But here, Trisha Snider captured a wren grasping onto gray-head coneflowers like stilts, its beak open in song.
—Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 June 2024
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Chaitali Patel, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 July 2024
Games feature constant music, choreographed dances, props, costumes and even a player on stilts.
—Scott Allen, Washington Post, 12 July 2024
Two beds and baths are featured within the house, which sits upon stilts that position it at tree canopy level and was in fact designed to wrap around and preserve a majestic 200-year-old pecan tree.
—Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 12 July 2024
But here, Trisha Snider captured a wren grasping onto gray-head coneflowers like stilts, its beak open in song.
—Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 June 2024
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“Stilt.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stilt. Accessed 6 Oct. 2024.
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