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décolleté

[dey-kol-tey, -kol-uh-, dek-uh-luh-, dey-kawl-tey] / ˌdeɪ kɒlˈteɪ, -kɒl ə-, ˌdɛk ə lə-, deɪ kɔlˈteɪ /
ADJECTIVE
low-cut
Synonyms


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With an embellished floral cape and daring décolleté, Lopez marveled — and occasionally shimmied— from the Saab front row as vibrant beats accompanied the shimmering ode to Marrakech.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 24, 2024

"Now that we have the face so well treated, we're looking at the hands, neck and décolleté."

From Seattle Times • Mar. 24, 2012

Is it Lake of Aqua Chiquite—wears his hair décolleté; talks like he had a washboard in his throat; tailor-made face; walks like a duck on stilts; general sort of pouter-pigeon effect?”

From Bransford of Rainbow Range Originally Published under the title of Bransford in Arcadia, or, The Little Eohippus by Rhodes, Eugene Manlove

All the town turned out in broadcloth, diamonds, silks and décolleté to hear them--a younger generation of San Franciscans assuming a bit uncomfortably that social importance which had not yet become genealogically sure of itself.

From Port O' Gold A History-Romance of the San Francisco Argonauts by Stellman, Louis J. (Louis John)

Hastily resuming my task of mentor, I explained that a décolleté corsage was an absolute rule for evening gatherings. 

From The Ways of Men by Gregory, Eliot




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