Definitions
a man's coat cut diagonally from the waist to the back of the knees
Word origin
Deverbal from cut away.
Used in a sentence
“Besides the broad-brimmed hat, he was distinguished by a spotted tie, a pair of seedy check trousers rather baggy in the seat, and a cut-away coat, much too tight for him.”
“Despite a pre-debate “memorandum of understanding” between the Bush campaign and the Kerry campaign that there would be no televised “cutaways” or reaction shots […]”
“Thousands of hectares of cutaway are now under squares of grass and conifers, but by the 1990s it was obvious that most of the total area was suitable only for "non-productive" uses.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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