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décolleté en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /dɪˈkɒləteɪ/ (UK)

Etymology

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

Meanings

1. Having a low neckline that reveals the cleavage.
   • "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." 1891, Oscar Wilde, chapter XV, in The Picture of Dorian Gray, London; New York, N.Y.: Ward Lock & Co., →OCLC:

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Relateds

décolletage

Translations (1)

de dekolletiert (having a low neckline that reveals the cleavage)

décolleté en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /dɪˈkɒləteɪ/ (UK)

Etymology

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

Meanings

1. A low-cut neckline that reveals the cleavage.

Forms