Meanings
comparative more décolleté · superlative most décolleté · alternative decollete · alternative décolletée
- 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
plural décolletés · alternative decollete · alternative décolletée
- A low-cut neckline that reveals the cleavage.
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
- Frenchdécolleté
- Englishdécolleté
Borrowed from French décolleté, from décolleter (“to bare the neck and shoulders”).
More words from French
Full word history & related roots →Translations
German dekolletiert
- dekolletierthaving a low neckline that reveals the cleavage
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