décolleté

English

Alternative 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)

  1. 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."

French

Etymology

Past participle of décolleter.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dekɔlte/

Adjective

décolleté (feminine singular décolletée, masculine plural décolletés, feminine plural décolletées)

  1. low-cut (dress etc.)
  2. decapitated

Noun

décolleté m (plural décolletés)

  1. cleavage
  2. low neckline

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Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from French décolleté.

Adjective

décolleté (invariable)

  1. having a low neckline

Noun

décolleté m (invariable)

  1. A low neckline
  2. cleavage
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