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modern cut

American  
Or moderne cut

noun

Jewelry.
  1. any of several modifications or combinations of the brilliant cut, step cut, or table cut, having the girdle outline often in some novel form.


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You — blonde, scruffy facial hair, and slick back longish modern cut.

From New York Times Mar. 14, 2015

While she's in a shorter, modern cut golf skirt and green cardigan.

From Golf Digest Oct. 16, 2013

Hanging from nails driven in the walls were coats, waistcoats, and trousers of more modern cut than the costumes worn by the two men.

From McClure's Magazine December, 1895 by Ida M. Tarbell

There were several very good diamonds, although not of modern cut; there was a fairly superb emerald, also pearls and amethysts and green-blue turquoises, on her hands.

From The Shoulders of Atlas A Novel by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

His learning sits easily on him, and has a modern cut.

From Among My Books First Series by James Russell Lowell

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