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Russian
Etymology
Borrowed from French décolleté.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (phonetic respelling: дэкольтэ́)
Noun
декольте́ • (dɛkolʹtɛ́) n inan (indeclinable)
- décolletage, décolleté
- Borrowed
Collocations
References
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “декольте”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
- Shansky, N. M., editor (1973), “декольте”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), volume 1, number 5 (Д, Е, Ж), Moscow: Moscow University Press, page 57
- Šanskij, N. M. (2004) “декольте”, in Školʹnyj etimologičeskij slovarʹ russkovo jazyka [School Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Drofa
- Anikin, A. E. (2019) “декольте”, in Русский этимологический словарь [Russian Etymological Dictionary] (in Russian), issue 13 (два – дигло), Moscow: Russian Language Institute, →ISBN, page 158