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Décolleté [da-coal-ta]

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Nothing even décolloté should be uttered before ladiesi.e. bearing the least semblance to a double entendre. Décolleté is the French for a “dress cut low about the bosom.”

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Debt of Nature
Decameron
Decamp
Decaniller
December. (Latin, the tenth month.)
Deception
Decide
Decimo
Deck
Decking Churches
Décolleté [da-coal-ta]
Decoration Day
Decoy Duck
Decrepit
Decuman Gate
Dedalian
Dedlock (Sir Leicester)
Dee
Dee (Dr. John)
Dee Mills
Deer