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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

The old gentleman was dressed in a style quite juvenile;—his coat was of the most modern cut, his vest and gloves white, and his cambric handkerchief fragrant with eau de cologne.

From City Crimes or Life in New York and Boston by Thompson, George

Barjona in a frock coat of modern cut, with a white waistcoat, and slate-coloured trousers, correctly creased!

From Windyridge by Riley, W.

They were deeply disappointed that some of the muffs and stoles which they remembered as very large, proved, when exhumed from storage and exhibited beside furs of a modern cut, to be ridiculously scant.

From Youth and the Bright Medusa by Cather, Willa Sibert

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