décolleté
English
editAlternative forms
edit- decollete
- décolletée (in feminine forms)
Etymology
editBorrowed from French décolleté, from décolleter (“to bare the neck and shoulders”).
Pronunciation
editAdjective
editdécolleté (comparative more décolleté, superlative most décolleté)
- Having a low neckline that reveals the cleavage.
- 1891, Oscar Wilde, chapter XV, in The Picture of Dorian Gray, London, New York, N.Y., Melbourne, Vic.: Ward Lock & Co., →OCLC:
- "She does not remember my short frocks at all, Lord Henry. But I remember her very well at Vienna thirty years ago, and how décolletée she was then."
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editTranslations
edit1. Having a low neckline that reveals the cleavage
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French
editEtymology
editPast participle of décolleter.
Pronunciation
editAdjective
editdécolleté (feminine décolletée, masculine plural décolletés, feminine plural décolletées)
- low-cut (dress, etc.)
- decapitated
Noun
editdécolleté m (plural décolletés)
Descendants
editFurther reading
edit- “décolleté”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
editEtymology
editBorrowed from French décolleté.
Adjective
editdécolleté (invariable)
- having a low neckline
Noun
editdécolleté m (invariable)
- a low neckline
- cleavage
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