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Décolleté is the sister word to décolletage. As a noun it is the low top edge of a woman’s dress — the cut to show the neck, shoulders, and part of the chest. As an adjective it means cut that way (a décolleté dress), or, of a person, wearing such a dress. English borrowed both from French décolleter, “to bare the neck and shoulders.” In real talk, most English speakers still say “low-cut”; you will see décolleté on clothing labels, in fashion writing, and in older novels. It does not mean “sexy” by itself — it only says how the sits. Though actually, even careful writers mix décolleté and décolletage. If you keep a simple picture — décolleté as the describing word, décolletage as the itself — you will be close enough, and nobody in ordinary life is marking the difference. The last e has a mark in careful spelling; people say it a bit like “day-coll-tay.”
低胸的;作名詞時即低胸領口
組成Borrowed from French décolleté, from décolleter (“to bare the neck and shoulders”).
同家族的字
- décolletagesame French family; the neckline, or the skin it shows
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
décolletéadj/dɪˈkɒləteɪ/
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Having a low neckline that reveals the cleavage.
- "She does not remember my short frocks at all, Lord Henry. But I remember her very well at Vienna thirty years ago, and how décolletée she was then."
décolleténoun/dɪˈkɒləteɪ/
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A low-cut neckline that reveals the cleavage.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。