词汇 | cleavage |
词根词缀 | 词源: 1816, in geology, "action of splitting (rocks or gems) along natural fissures," from cleave (1). General meaning "action or state of cleaving or being cleft" is from 1867. The sense of "cleft between a woman's breasts in low-cut clothing" is first recorded 1946, when it was defined in a "Time" magazine article as the "Johnston Office trade term for the shadowed depression dividing an actress' bosom into two distinct sections" [Aug. 5]. |
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