subs. (common).—A morning coat. [From comparison to a frock-coat, the lappets in front being ‘CUT AWAY.’] For synonyms, see CAPELLA.
1866. The London Miscellany, 5 May, p. 201, 2, ‘London Revelations.’ He wore a Newmarket CUTAWAY, with huge flaps and pockets monopolising the whole of the skirts, suggestive of being receptacles for plunder.
1870. London Figaro, 8 June. It may be taken as an axiom that if a CUTAWAY has been made for a fashionable man six feet high and broad in proportion, it will never sit nicely on the form of a wee little weaver of five feet two.
1889. Pall Mall Gazette, 29 Oct., p. 3, col. 1. Off flies the frock coat and the flowing necktie; on goes the little red bow and the seedy brown ‘CUTAWAY.’
