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cutaway 1. a. a drawing or model of a machine, engine, etc., in which part of the casing is omitted to reveal the workings b. (as modifier): a cutaway model 2. Films Television a shot separate from the main action of a scene, to emphasize something or to show simultaneous events cutaway [′kəd·ə‚wā] (graphic arts) An illustration of an object with a part of its covering or surface removed to show its interior construction or movement. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Sometimes these correspondents assumed facetious names, as the Brick, Bellows, Old Gooseberry, Wideawake, Snooks, Mops, Cutaway, the Dogs-meat Man; but he considered this in bad taste, and was always a little hurt by it. Made up with curls, wreaths, wings, white bismuth, and carmine, this hopeful young person soared into so pleasing a Cupid as to constitute the chief delight of the maternal part of the spectators; but in private, where his characteristics were a precocious cutaway coat and an extremely gruff voice, he became of the Turf, turfy. "The hounds," calls out a fifth-form boy, clad in a green cutaway with brass buttons and cord trousers, the leader of the sporting interest, and reputed a great rider and keen hand generally. |
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