a. (sb.) [f. CUT pa. pple. + AWAY.] Of a coat: Having the skirt cut back from the waist in a slope or curve, as contrasted with a frock-coat.

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1841.  J. T. Hewlett, Parish Clerk, II. 251. From the pocket of his clerical cut-away coat.

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1869.  E. A. Parkes, Pract. Hygiene (ed. 3), 414. The tunic … a great improvement over the old cut-away coatee.

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  b.  ellipt. as sb. A cut-away coat.

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1857.  Hughes, Tom Brown, I. vi. A fifth-form boy, clad in a green cut-away, with brass buttons and cord trousers.

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1887.  Edin. Rev., Oct., 334. A frock coat or even a ‘cutaway’ may be worn.

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