Sharply defined. This may be American.
1876. The clear-cut, emphatic chant which makes a truth doubly telling in Scotch utterance.—George Eliot, ‘Daniel Deronda,’ i. 298. (N.E.D.)
1883. The cleanest-cut and the bravest Englishman on the temperance platform.—Pall Mall Gazette, Nov. 15. (N.E.D.)
1910. There is a perfectly clear-cut contrast between [these attitudes].—N.Y. Ev. Post, Feb. 3.
1910. What is exhibited on a national scale and in a clear-cut way in this conspicuous instance.—Id., Feb. 7.
1910. “Bitterness at Princeton. Wilson or West the Clean-Cut Issue at University.”—Head-lines, id., Feb. 14.
