Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Cut with square cuffs, collar, and (broad) skirts: noting a style of coat in fashion in the eighteenth century.
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Examples
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He eventually settled on a large, square-cut diamond set in a platinum band.
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He glanced up at the ceiling, where the square-cut window showed the sky beyond.
Haven Kristi Cook 2011
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The heavy jaw and square-cut chin demonstrated rugged pertinacity and indomitability.
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We went to the jewelry store when we were back in Memphis, and John gave me a real nice four-karat square-cut diamond.
Teed Off Sherrie Daly 2011
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He glanced up at the ceiling, where the square-cut window showed the sky beyond.
Haven Kristi Cook 2011
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The heavy jaw and square-cut chin demonstrated rugged pertinacity and indomitability.
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Why, I used to think that up here, where all the advantages of culture were enjoyed — He paused for a moment, and watched the youthful shade of himself, in stiff-rim and square-cut, enter the door and swagger across the room.
Chapter 27 2010
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He saw himself when he had been quite the hoodlum, wearing a "stiff-rim" Stetson hat and a square-cut, double-breasted coat, with a certain swagger to the shoulders and possessing the ideal of being as tough as the police permitted.
Chapter 27 2010
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He glanced about him at the well-bred, well-dressed men and women, and breathed into his lungs the atmosphere of culture and refinement, and at the same moment the ghost of his early youth, in stiff-rim and square-cut, with swagger and toughness, stalked across the room.
Chapter 27 2010
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He glanced up at the ceiling, where the square-cut window showed the sky beyond.
Haven Kristi Cook 2011
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