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fine-cut

[ fahyn-kuht ]

adjective

  1. cut into very thin strips ( rough-cut ):

    fine-cut tobacco.



fine-cut

adjective

  1. (of tobacco) finely cut or shredded


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Word History and Origins

Origin of fine-cut1

An Americanism dating back to 1830–40

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Example Sentences

His fine-cut face and dark eyes expressed a hundred things that his tongue had no time to put into words.

Then I confined operations to my office and took to fine cut instead of plug, as being tonier.

He had long since given up plug and fine-cut and taken to fat Havanas, which he smoked audibly, in plethoric wheezes.

But there was no give-up in her expression; determination marked every fine cut line.

Glass-works are numerous, and a great deal of very fine cut glass is exported.

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