| 释义 |
‖ décolletage|dekɔltɑʒ|
Also decolletage, decoltage.
[Fr.: see décolleté ppl. a.]
1. The low-cut neck of a bodice.
1894Season X. 34/2 Into the breast pleats are placed fan⁓shaped gores..loosely smocked into the decoltage. 1896Westm. 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. 1902Queen 10 May 816/2 A soft fold of pink silk at the decolletage. 1933D. 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 fig.
1894Sat. Rev. LXXVIII. 596 Such art as that of John Oliver Hobbes, so typically feminine in its discreet décolletage, is not truth but effect. 1921Public Opinion 8 July 37/3 A bold decolletage of shoulders still young and white. 1924Blackw. Mag. Nov. 678/1 Skeletta's ever-increasing décolletage had a sort of embarrassed fascination for us. 1937J. Laver Taste & Fashion xiii. 192 A considerable proportion of young women will be décolleté, for décolletage is a powerful weapon of attractiveness. |