sweetheart neckline

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noun

a neckline on a woman's garment, as a dress, with a high back and a low-cut front with two curved edges resembling the conventionalized shape of a heart.

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Also called sweetheart neck .

Origin of sweetheart neckline

First recorded in 1940–45

Words nearby sweetheart neckline

sweet grass, sweet gum, sweetheart, sweetheart agreement, sweetheart contract, sweetheart neckline, sweetie, sweetie pie, sweetiewife, sweeting, sweetish

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How to use sweetheart neckline in a sentence

“I wish this would end soon,” says Victor, who is just married to his young sweetheart.
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Back in 2005, Franklin had referred to sideline reporter Holly Rowe as “sweetheart.”
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The chance of becoming a mother had died when she lost her sweetheart in the Great War.
The Tragic, Heroic Women of World War I|Jacqueline Winspear|June 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The “high-leg, low-neckline belted bodysuit and matching wrap” was designed by the Italian fashion house for the special occasion.
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Apparently, 'The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon' is the place to stake your claim as America's Sweetheart.
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Women pitied him, and gazed at him tenderly, wondering if a man could look like that for anything save the loss of a sweetheart.
Ramona|Helen Hunt Jackson
She became my sweetheart, temporarily; but a born butterfly, she soon fluttered away, leaving me disconsolate—for a time!
Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland|Joseph Tatlow
Please remember me to your wife and to the four-year-old sweetheart, if she be not too engrossed with higher matters.
The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 25 (of 25)|Robert Louis Stevenson
It was one thing to refuse to marry her old sweetheart; it was another to take his property and reduce him to poverty.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866|Various
"No, you are my sweetheart," he cried, discretion all gone now in his eager furtherance of his pleading.
The Underworld|James C. Welsh

British Dictionary definitions for sweetheart neckline

sweetheart neckline

noun

a neckline on a woman's dress that is low at the front and shaped like the top of a heart

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