Word of the Day for Friday, June 3, 2011
decollete \dey-kol-TEY\, adjective:
decollete \dey-kol-TEY\, adjective:
1. (Of a garment) low-necked.
2. Wearing a low-necked garment.
It was heard on the street today that the B.O. and his Mrs. B.O. will be secretly attending a fund raising party Saturday evening for the Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven Foundation for a Better Socialist Society; the Mrs. B.O. will be wearing a symbolic red decollete evening gown bejeweled with red rubies, all charged to her taxpayer paid expense account!
--Spy Maker, JSA's Blog
Since it was essential that a masquerade costume be decollete, she had devised a backless costume, the front cut to display her over-full bust and with one long sleeve to cover her right arm.-- Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
There was a pearl-handled fan made of large, colored feathers; there was a faded silk, cream-colored parasol; there was a long, tea-colored ruffled voile dress which had huge pleats and a decollete neck-line; and there was a pair of fragile, high-heeled slippers.-- Richard Wright, The Outsider
Decollete is a loan word from the French décolleter, "to expose the neck," from de + collet "collar of a dress."
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