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Watteau back
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Etymology
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After the 18th-century French painter
Jean-Antoine Watteau
.
Noun
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Watteau
back
(
plural
Watteau backs
)
The back of a woman's
gown
in which one or more very broad
folds
are carried from the neck to the floor without being held in at the waist, while the front and sides of the gown are shaped to the person and have a belt or its equivalent.
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