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rough cut en · NOUN

Etymology

From the early days of filmmaking when film stock was physically cut and reassembled.

Meanings

1. The second of three stages of offline editing of a film, recognizable as a conventional film but having notable defects such as incomplete narrative flow and missing visual or sound effects.
2. A poor quality reproduction of an illustration in a printed work.
   • In this small quarto volume the illustrations are rough cuts. 1922, Eleanour Sinclair Rohde, The Old English Herbals, London: Longmans, Green and Co., page 10:

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fine cut