three-quarter

  1. Adjective.  of three fourths of the usual dimension.
  2. Adjective.  (context, of a portrait) with the subject turned slightly away from a frontal view.
  3. Noun.  (rugby) A player positioned between the half-backs and the full-backs (properly a three-quarter back).

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