décolleté

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See also décollete, and decollete

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English [edit]

Alternative forms [edit]

Etymology [edit]

Borrowing from French, from décolleter (“to bare the neck and shoulders”).

Pronunciation [edit]

  • (UK) IPA: /dɪˈkɒləteɪ/

Adjective [edit]

décolleté (comparative more décolleté, superlative most décolleté)

  1. Having a low neckline that reveals the cleavage.
    • 1890, Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, ch. XV:
      "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."

Related terms [edit]

French [edit]

Etymology [edit]

Past participle of décolleter.

Pronunciation [edit]

  • IPA: /dekɔlte/

Adjective [edit]

décolleté m (feminine décolletée, masculine plural décolletés, feminine plural décolletées)

  1. low-cut (dress etc.)
  2. decapitated

Noun [edit]

décolleté m (plural décolletés)

  1. cleavage
  2. low neckline

Descendants [edit]

Italian [edit]

Etymology [edit]

Borrowing from French

Adjective [edit]

décolleté (invariable)

  1. having a low neckline

Noun [edit]

décolleté m (invariable)

  1. A low neckline
  2. cleavage
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