Décolleté

/dɪˈkɒləteɪ/ adj, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A low-cut neckline that reveals the cleavage.
Adjective
  1. 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.""

Example

More examples

""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.""

Etymology

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