Mademoiselle de Vermont disliked bright colors, and wore on this occasion a robe of black velvet, of which the 'decolletee' bodice set off the whiteness of her shoulders and her neck, the latter ornamented with a simple band of cherry-colored velvet, without jewels, as was suitable for a young girl. ❋ Philippe Massa (1871)
a robe of black velvet, of which the 'decolletee' bodice set off the whiteness of her shoulders and her neck, the latter ornamented with a simple band of cherry-colored velvet, without jewels, as was suitable for ❋ Various (N/A)
Oscar, presented to the marquise by Georges, was quite stupefied, and did not recognize the danseuse he had seen at the Gaiete, in this lady, aristocratically decolletee and swathed in laces, till she looked like the vignette of a keepsake, who received him with manners and graces the like of which was neither in the memory nor the imagination of a young clerk rigidly brought up. ❋ Unknown (2007)
A stout countess of sixty, decolletee, painted, wrinkled with rouge up to her drooping eyelids, and diamonds twinkling in her wig, is a wholesome and edifying, but not a pleasant sight. ❋ Unknown (2006)
The daring Peenemundes (Rockets and Reactors), dating from the 1920's wore tuxedos, and the women unashamedly revealed legs, arms and necks in the decolletee of antique Worth and Mainbocher gowns. ❋ Bester, Alfred (1955)
What would you say to a goggle-eyed abbe, or an old lady indecently decolletee, or a captain of dragoons wearing a tigerskin cap (it is ten francs more if he has the cross of St. Louis)? ❋ Various (N/A)
"She is still decolletee," he answered, taking an olive in his long fingers; ❋ Unknown (1931)
A mere strap for the sleeve, and sufficiently decolletee, I should imagine. ❋ Arthur Wing Pinero (1894)
"A little _decolletee_, isn't it, my dear?" suggested a lady friend, as the charitable dancer entered the drawing-room. ❋ Unknown (1893)
They all had golden hair, and all wore precisely similar frocks -- a charming but _decolletee_ arrangement -- in claret-coloured velvet over blue silk stockings. ❋ Unknown (1893)
It was even more _decolletee_ than her dress, both had come out a little more _decolletee_ than she had intended. ❋ Unknown (1892)
You must admit that you were rather _decolletee_, to say the least of it. ❋ Maurice Hewlett (1892)
Leigh Hunt refers to her at the opera, decolletee, with white, gleaming, sloping shoulders. ❋ Rossetti, Lucy M (1890)
Immediately over the shop was a cafe, at the counter of which presided a lady, generally of more than ordinary female attractions, who was very much decolletee, and wore an amount of jewellery which would have made the eye of an Israelite twinkle with delight. ❋ Gronow, Rees Howell, 1794-1865 (1862)
In particular, there was a woman — decolletee, and such ❋ Unknown (1842)
A stout countess of sixty, decolletee, painted, wrinkled with rouge up to her drooping eyelids, and diamonds twinkling in her wig, is a wholesome and edifying, but not ❋ William Makepeace Thackeray (1837)
This ungainly creature, always decolletee, showed a bosom and a pair of shoulders that were whitened and polished by the same process employed upon her face; happily, for the sake of exhibiting her magnificent laces, she partially veiled the charms of these chemical products. ❋ Honor�� De Balzac (1824)
-- a _decolletee_ blue ball-dress, trimmed with tulle and roses. ❋ W. H. Wilkins (1882)
As if this symbol were not explanatory enough, the eye was arrested by the blue of a poster which was pasted over the doorway, and on which appeared, above the words "Good Beer of Mars," the picture of a soldier pouring out, in the direction of a very decolletee woman, a jet of foam which spurted in an arched line from the pitcher to the glass which she was holding towards him; the whole of a color to make Delacroix swoon. ❋ Honor�� De Balzac (1824)
