Crossword clues for decolletage
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1894 (from 1883 as a French word in English), from French décolletage, from décolleté "low-necked" (see decollete).
Wiktionary
alt. (alternative spelling of décolletage English) n. (alternative spelling of décolletage English)
WordNet
n. a low-cut neckline on a woman's dress
Wikipedia
Décolletage (or décolleté, its adjectival form, in current French) is the upper part of a woman's torso, comprising her neck, shoulders, back and chest, that is exposed by the neckline of her clothing. However, the term is most commonly applied to a neckline that reveals or emphasizes cleavage. Low-cut necklines are a feature of ball gowns, evening gowns, leotards, lingerie and swimsuits, among other fashions. Although décolletage does not itself prescribe the extent of exposure of a woman's upper chest, the design of a décolleté garment takes into account current fashions, aesthetics, social norms and the occasion when a garment will be worn.
Though neckline styles have varied in Western societies and décolletage may be regarded as aesthetic and an expression of femininity, in some parts of the world any décolletage is considered provocative and shocking.
Usage examples of "decolletage".
Herbie tugged the decolletage of that peasant blouse down over her breasts, which were enormous, unbelievable, like albino watermelons with huge organically grown strawberries in the center--for a second he could only ogle them in gluttonous awe.
A decorative, gauzy material demurely filled in the decolletage of the fitted bodice that dipped to a deep vee in front.
Janet cooed, her lounging pose artfully composed to accent the extreme decolletage of her silver tissue dressing gown.
She had stood for the last fitting of the flamboyant gown only a week ago and it had fit perfectly with a decolletage that was positively scandalous.
Her decolletage, already strained, threatened to burst its moorings altogether.
And then he flew off into a torrent of French as Carole-anne arranged her decolletage more winningly over the counter and looked sad.
Plunging cloth-of-gold decolletage had shown off sculpted neck and shoulders, and round firm breasts, right down to the nipples.
When I turned back from the bar I was nose to nose and elsewhere with a piece of blonde business in a frantic decolletage who was drunker than two billy goats.
In another moment Bert, in a state of irregular decolletage, was standing over the table displaying a sheaf of papers.
His gaze moved along it to the shoulder, skipped to the silver decolletage, paused a beat, rose.
She smiled at him, a slow, tantalizing smile, and leaned deliberately closer so that he could not fail to appreciate the deep decolletage of her dress.
Dolores woke to find his hand sliding inside her decolletage, his thumb and index finger pinching her nipple.
Franklin seated at his Glass Armonica, or down upon the Figures and into the Decolletages of Molly and Dolly, who not only have show'd up, but have brought along two more young women with similar ideas about Fashion.
The corridors were filled with hordes of beautiful girls with daring decolletages and other carefully-calculated anatomic exposures and with hosts of sharply-dressed, worried, watchful men.
From the punch table on the mezzanine one could see the whole show: down the decolletages of the prettier women (Italian breasts were the finest - ah!