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. 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.
