decolletage

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the low neckline of a woman's garment

   The gown's decolletage was edged with black lace.

2. 2
   noun

   a woman's neck, shoulders, and upper chest when exposed by a low-cut garment

   She wore a silk scarf across her decolletage.

Borrowed from French décolletage, from décolleter, “to expose the neck,” built from dé- and collet, “collar.” In English it came to denote both a low-cut neckline and the area of the neck and upper chest that it reveals.

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