2. Adjective. (context: of a portrait) with the subject turned slightly away from a frontal view ¹
3. Noun. (rugby) A player positioned between the half-backs and the full-backs (properly a three-quarter back) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Three-quarter
Literary usage of Three-quarter
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and ...by Thomas Bayly Howell, William Cobbett, David Jardine by Thomas Bayly Howell, William Cobbett, David Jardine (1816)
"Tell whom you lived with three quarter« of a year.—1 cannot rightly tell. Mr.
Just. Clive. How long together?— Headland. It might be a quarter of a year ..."
2. Sporting Magazine (1793)
"... a half — _ — 10 3 g Two inches and three quarters — — 10 5 • 4' Two inches,
three quarter», and half a quarter — ю 6 z Three inches and half a quarter . ..."
3. Book Auction Records by Frank Karslake (1904)
"When at the Charterhouse, portraits of him were usually made only in three quarter
or full-face, and in the present case the drawing was made without his ..."
4. A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch, Flemish, and by John Smith (1831)
"Portrait of Sir Thomas Hanmer, cf Hanmer, in Flintshire, cup-bearer to Charles
I.; a gentleman about thirty years of age, represented in a three-quarter ..."
5. The Bookman (1895)
"4 vols., 8vo, cloth label title, gilt top, $6.00 ; in three-quarter calf, gilt
top, $12.00 ; in three-quarter levant, gilt top, $15.00. ..."
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