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English
Etymology
Borrowed from French décolleté, from décolleter (“to bare the neck and shoulders”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
décolleté (comparative more décolleté, superlative most décolleté)
- Having a low neckline that reveals the cleavage.
1891, Oscar Wilde, chapter XV, in The Picture of Dorian Gray, London, New York, N.Y., Melbourne, Vic.: Ward Lock & Co., →OCLC:"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."
Translations
1. Having a low neckline that reveals the cleavage
French
Etymology
Past participle of décolleter.
Pronunciation
Adjective
décolleté (feminine décolletée, masculine plural décolletés, feminine plural décolletées)
- low-cut (dress, etc.)
- decapitated
Noun
décolleté m (plural décolletés)
- cleavage
- low neckline
Descendants
Further reading
Indonesian
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from French décolleté (“cleavage, low neckline”), décolleter (“to bare the neck and shoulders”).
Noun
décolleté
- low neckline
Further reading
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from French décolleté.
Adjective
décolleté (invariable)
- having a low neckline
Noun
décolleté m (invariable)
- a low neckline
- cleavage