square-cut, a.
[square a. or adv.]
1. Cut to or into a square form. Also fig.
| 1622 Drayton Poly-olb. xxiii. 192 Mosses, fleets, and fells,..Whose turf, and square-cut peat, is fuel good enough. 1820 Keats Cap & Bells xvii, There's the square-cut chancellor, His son shall never touch that bishopric. 1848 Clough Bothie i. 22 The grave man, nicknamed Adam,..with square cut antique waistcoat. 1879 Mrs. A. G. F. E. James Ind. Househ. Managem. 14 One good black silk, made with high, low, and square-cut bodices, you will certainly require. |
2. absol. A coat with square skirts.
| 1893 Westm. Gaz. 21 Dec. 2/1 That one which you are looking at is a George I:..it is a true square-cut. |