THREE-QUARTER


Meaning of THREE-QUARTER in English

adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

length

He was wearing black track suit bottoms, black white and yellow T-shirt and three-quarter length yellow coat.

The same approach is applied to the whole body of a three-quarter length figure, which is the culmination of the series.

By 1965 things had eased, but my detective inspector still railed against my three-quarter length corduroy car-coat with its red lining.

In the three-quarter length figures the sides of the body are pulled or folded outwards to broaden and expand the trunk.

The museum still lacked, as curator Jan Piet Filedt Kok said, a three-quarter length male portrait from the 1630s.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a three-quarter moon

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

As the men cleared away the dishes, a three-quarter moon rose and shone through the windows that looked toward the meadow.

He was wearing black track suit bottoms, black white and yellow T-shirt and three-quarter length yellow coat.

I was grateful for the three-quarter moon.

Prince of Thieves is a three-quarter brother to Timber Country, the 1995 Preakness winner.

The hall clock struck the half hour, the three-quarter , two o'clock, and still she sat.

The same approach is applied to the whole body of a three-quarter length figure, which is the culmination of the series.

Writtle College has also signposted the three-quarter mile circular trail route, built stiles and bridged a large ditch.

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