décolleté
English
Alternative forms
- decollete
- décolletée (in feminine forms)
Etymology
Borrowed from French décolleté, from décolleter (“to bare the neck and shoulders”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /dɪˈkɒləteɪ/
Adjective
décolleté (comparative more décolleté, superlative most décolleté)
- 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."
- 1890, Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, ch. XV:
Related terms
French
Etymology
Past participle of décolleter.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dekɔlte/
Adjective
décolleté (feminine singular décolletée, masculine plural décolletés, feminine plural décolletées)
- low-cut (dress etc.)
- decapitated
Noun
décolleté m (plural décolletés)
Descendants
Further reading
- “décolleté” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Italian
Etymology
Adjective
décolleté (invariable)
- having a low neckline
Noun
décolleté m (invariable)
- A low neckline
- cleavage
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