"low-cut" meaning in English

See low-cut in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-low-cut.wav Forms: more low-cut [comparative], most low-cut [superlative]
Head templates: {{en-adj}} low-cut (comparative more low-cut, superlative most low-cut)
  1. Cut low, especially (of clothing) so as to reveal part of the breasts. Categories (topical): Clothing Translations (cut low): escollat [masculine] (Catalan), 低胸 (dīxiōng) (Chinese Mandarin), nedringet (Danish), décolleté (French)
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          "ref": "1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 292:",
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          "text": "I was in the Woodley Park–Zoo in D.C. and mom and sister were waiting to see the pandas, so me and my pops broke away to check out the monkey house. Well, there was a beautiful teacher, I mean we're talking a ten, she was blond, had a low-cut dress on, just gorgeous. And she has about eight or nine students and she's pointing out all the different monkeys. And me and my dad noticed this huge orangutan kind of fiddling with himself. And on close [censored] And we kept checking it out and he was looking directly at the teacher. Well, a couple minutes passed by [censored] he proceeds to [censored] that's when the teacher noticed and, you know, took the kids away very hurriedly. But I looked at my dad and said, you know, they're so much like us.",
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          "sense": "cut low",
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          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "dīxiōng",
          "sense": "cut low",
          "word": "低胸"
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          "code": "da",
          "lang": "Danish",
          "sense": "cut low",
          "word": "nedringet"
        },
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          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "cut low",
          "word": "décolleté"
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      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "cut low",
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      "word": "escollat"
    },
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      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "dīxiōng",
      "sense": "cut low",
      "word": "低胸"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "cut low",
      "word": "nedringet"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "cut low",
      "word": "décolleté"
    }
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  "word": "low-cut"
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