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Brewer's: Decollete
[da-coal-ta ]. Nothing even décolleté should be uttered before ladies—i.e. bearing the least semblance to a double entendre. Décolleté is the French for a “dress cut low about the bosom.”
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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