step cut

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step′ cut′, [Jewelry.]

1. Jewelry a cut consisting of a rectangular girdle, often faceted, with two or more tiers of narrow facets running parallel to the girdle on both the crown and the pavilion: used esp. in stones in which color is more important than brilliance. Also called trap cut. 

• 1860–65

step′-cut′, adj.