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Gravity's favorite argument for why necklines exist.
means The visible division between a woman's breasts as shown by a low neckline, or more generally, a split between two parts of something.
from From Old English 'cleofan,' meaning to split or divide, the same root that gives us 'cleave' — a wonderfully two-faced word that means both 'to split apart' and 'to cling together.' The geological sense came first (rocks cleaving along a plane), and the anatomical sense arrived later, borrowing that same idea of a visible dividing line.
- geology term too
- rocks have cleavage, splitting along weak planes
- fashion timeline
- roared back in 1950s Hollywood, scandalized censors
- diamond cutting
- cleavage is how gem cutters split crystals precisely