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German: Decolleté

English translation: decollete







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GLOSSARY ENTRY (DERIVED FROM QUESTION BELOW)
German term or phrase:Decolleté
English translation:decollete
Entered by:Kim Metzger
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4:14pm May 21, 2002Login or register (free) for more options.
German to English translations [PRO]
Marketing - Cosmetics, Beauty / cosmetics
German term or phrase: Decolleté
I know well that Decolleté is one of God's marvellous works of art and that it is translated into English as décolletage. But I'm wondering whether British ladies would prefer neckline in a cosmetics advert.

COLLAGEN - MOIST
Reichhaltige 24-Stunden-Creme fĂĽr die feuchtigkeitsarme, leicht regenerationsbedĂĽrftige Haut.
Bio-Hyaluronsäure und marines Collagen bewahren und binden die Feuchtigkeit, können die Haut glätten und bilden einen unsichtbaren Schutzfilm.

Morgens und / oder abends als Grundlage unter die gewohnte Pflege oder auch als alleinige Feuchtigkeitspflege auf Gesicht, Hals und Decolleté auftragen.
Kim Metzger
Mexico
decollete
Explanation:
Moisturizes, nourishes and cares
for the particularly sensitive and
often-exposed throat and decollete areas.
http://grandel.safeshopper.com/30/247.htm?63

Firming Neck & Decollete Cream
skin firming cream for face, neck & throat
www.mypersonalskincare.com/janssenCOM/supreme.htm.
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Selected response from:

Johanna Timm, PhD
Canada
Note from asker to answerer
Thank you Johanna and everyone else.
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
4 +4decollete
Johanna Timm, PhD
4 +1cleavage
Mary Worby
4throat and neck creamBeth Kantus
4décolletageCilian O'Tuama


  

Answers

6 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
décolletage

Explanation:
1 : the low-cut neckline of a dress
2 : a décolleté dress

Merriam-Webster

HTH, I know nothing about such matters

Cilian O'Tuama
Germany
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Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 16
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13 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +4
decollete

Explanation:
Moisturizes, nourishes and cares
for the particularly sensitive and
often-exposed throat and decollete areas.
http://grandel.safeshopper.com/30/247.htm?63

Firming Neck & Decollete Cream
skin firming cream for face, neck & throat
www.mypersonalskincare.com/janssenCOM/supreme.htm.
.

Johanna Timm, PhD
Canada
Native speaker of: Native in GermanGerman
PRO pts in category: 11
Note from asker to answerer
Thank you Johanna and everyone else.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree Jonathan MacKerron: sounds better than cleavage in pure marketing terms
38 mins
agree Ingrid Grzeszik
51 mins
agree patfue
1 hr
agree TranslationMD
6 hrs
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31 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
cleavage

Explanation:
Not sure you can apply a cream to a neckline ...

Cleavage is certainly more common than decolleté ... although I understand the French, I'm not sure it's one that the average Brit would!

HTH

Mary

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Note added at 2002-05-21 16:47:39 (GMT)
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http://www.magnoliaspa.com/Templates/frmTemplateE.asp?SubFol...

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Note added at 2002-05-21 16:53:55 (GMT)
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7 hits on Google for face + neck + cream + decolletage
0 hits for face + neck + cream + decolleté
426 hits for face + neck + cream + cleavage

All on UK Google ....

I speak as a \'British lady\' (although some might argue with that ;-))

Mary Worby
United Kingdom
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree jerrie: As another British lady, I would agree...we just wouldn't have decollete on our packaging, although I haven't seen cleavage either. It's usually just face and neck!
47 mins
neutral Trudy Peters: Not sure I'd want to rub cream into my cleavage! Then again... :-)
2 hrs
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3 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
throat and neck cream

Explanation:
Found some advertisements with decolletage cream and have seen products with such names (American, though).
Got far and away the most hits on google though with just plain old neck cream, or throat and neck cream, often preceded by the promise "firming" or "extra-firming"!

HTH!


Skincare - Bath Products - Canyon Cosmetics
... 10.0434.00.jpg (23447 bytes), New Throat & Decolletage Cream, A newly created "double
deliverance" for the highly neglected neckline. A powerful combination of ...
www.canyoncosmetics.com/store/skincare.htm - 50k

Infiniti Decolletage Cream
... Infiniti Decolletage Cream ÂŁ26.00. The decolletage is a delicate area, yet often
neglected. Infiniti uses natural skin smoothing AHAs of Apple, Sugar Cane ...
www.estoreuk.com/aloe-vera/itm00013.htm - 27k


Beth Kantus
United States
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
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