Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Cut low at the neckline: a décolleté dress.
- adj. Wearing a garment that is low-cut or strapless.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Low-necked: said of a dress-waist so shaped as to leave the neck and shoulders exposed.
- By extension, having the neck and shoulders exposed: said of a woman the waist of whose dress is cut low in the neck.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Leaving the neck and shoulders uncovered; cut low in the neck, or low-necked, as a dress.
- adj. Wearing a décolleté gown.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. (of a garment) having a low-cut neckline
Etymologies
- Borrowing from French, from décolleter ("to bare the neck and shoulders"). (Wiktionary)
- French, past participle of décolleter, to lower a neckline, uncover the neck : dé-, off (from Latin dē-; see de-) + collet, collar (from Old French, diminutive of col, neck, collar, from Latin collum, neck; see kwel-1 in Indo-European roots). (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
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