Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having a low-cut neckline; décolleté.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Cut low in the neck, as a garment; décolleté: applied particularly to a woman's dress cut low on the shoulders: opposed to high-necked.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Cut low in the neck; decollete; low-cut; -- said of a woman's dress.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective (of a garment) having a low-cut neckline
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Examples
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Smoothed out on the bed, it proved to be a low-necked gown of heavy cream-colored satin, with a separate bodice that buttoned with dozens of tiny cloth-covered buttons, each embroidered with a gold fleur-de-lis.
Sick Cycle Carousel 2010
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She was wearing brown ill-fitting slacks with a strap under the foot, dirty, grass-stained white plimsoles and a sleeveless white cotton top, low-necked, which showed a brown and mottled triangle of sunburn.
She Closed Her Eyes 2010
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But now scientists are saying the low-necked sauropod pose is a mistake: new evidence indicates that they held their necks aloft like giraffes and all other living land vertebrates, making them up to 15 metres tall.
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While at a rather unenjoyable private ball, Alexia Tarabotti retires to the library where she meets a vampire, who is all too pleased to meet a lone lady in a low-necked gown.
Reviews of fantasy and science fiction books Kristen 2009
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Minutes after Phalla had returned from changing into her practice outfit, a piece of dark cloth folded to make a pair of loose trousers and worn with a silver chain belt, and a tightly-fitting low-necked blouse, the Princess, flanked by her three Pekinese dogs, arrived to supervise the rehearsal.
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When a man acknowledges any awareness of a woman's body -- as implicitly occurs when he raises the topic of, say, a low-necked dress -- his comments can be misinterpreted.
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Beauff******, who, though very young, had a gray head and a pretty and witty wife, whose very low-necked toilettes of scarlet velvet with gold torsades alarmed these shadows, the Marquis de
Les Miserables 2008
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The gusts of rain had drenched the front of the vehicle, which was wide open; the breezes of February are not warm; as the fishwife, clad in a low-necked gown, replied to the Spaniard, she shivered, laughed and coughed.
Les Miserables 2008
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No short dresses, no tight dresses, no low-necked dresses, no dresses with big armholes.
Rainbow’s End Lauren St John 2007
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No short dresses, no tight dresses, no low-necked dresses, no dresses with big armholes.
Rainbow’s End Lauren St John 2007
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