单词 | décolletage |
释义 | décolletagen. 1. The low-cut neck of a bodice. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > wearing clothing > nakedness or state of being unclothed > [noun] > having specific part of body uncovered openfacedness1649 barefootedness1756 décolletage1894 the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > parts of clothing > [noun] > covering or next to neck > neck-line > types of décolletage1894 décolletée1907 V-neck1910 boat neckline1921 boat neck1922 bateau line1923 halter neck(line)1935 jewel neckline1935 crew neckline1939 jewel neck1940 plunging neckline1940 plunge neckline1941 scoop neck1953 scooped neckline1956 sabrina neckline1959 sweetheart neck1965 1894 Season 10 34/2 Into the breast pleats are placed fan~shaped gores..loosely smocked into the decoltage. 1896 Westm. Gaz. 14 Mar. 3/2 The sleeves and upper bodice are in creamy white chiffon, and the dark line round the décolletage of black jet. 1902 Queen 10 May 816/2 A soft fold of pink silk at the decolletage. 1933 D. C. Peel Life's Enchanted Cup iv. 47 The decolletage was, in the case of young girls, decorously cut. 2. Exposure of the neck and shoulders by the low cut of the bodice. Also figurative. ΚΠ 1894 Sat. Rev. 78 596 Such art as that of John Oliver Hobbes, so typically feminine in its discreet décolletage, is not truth but effect. 1921 Public Opinion 8 July 37/3 A bold decolletage of shoulders still young and white. 1924 Blackwood's Mag. Nov. 678/1 Skeletta's ever-increasing décolletage had a sort of embarrassed fascination for us. 1937 J. Laver Taste & Fashion xiii. 192 A considerable proportion of young women will be décolleté, for décolletage is a powerful weapon of attractiveness. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1894 |
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