"Cutaway" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of the residents of Fifth Avenue for permission to enclose a part of the roadway in a closed yard or area, it was not an uncommon sight to see many of the older men standing at their gates, in high stocks, white cravats, cutaway coats with brass buttons, greeting their neighbours as they passed along the Avenue—a custom which survived to about 1870, when the white cravat, too, passed into history. The improvements on Fifth Avenue, north of Thirty-fourth Street, began with ...
— Fifth Avenue • Arthur Bartlett Maurice
... was himself a wide traveler and a man of the world, instantly saw and was agreeably surprised that he had asked a gentleman to dine. Fitzgerald was no cad; he would have been just as much interested in Breitmann had he arrived in a cutaway sack. But chance acquaintances, as a rule, ...
— A Splendid Hazard • Harold MacGrath
... Jaybird he's my favorite Of all the birds they is! I think he's quite a stylish sight In that blue suit of his: An' when he' lights an' shuts his wings, His coat's a "cutaway"— I guess it's only when he sings You'd know he wuz ...
— The Book of Joyous Children • James Whitcomb Riley
... cutaway coat if the luncheon is a formal one while for simpler affairs the sack coat or summer flannels, when the season ...
— Book of Etiquette • Lillian Eichler |
