Single cut, also known as single cut melee, refers to the type of faceting of round diamonds typically used in pavé jewellery. Such diamonds usually weigh less than 0.10 carats or 10 pointers and have 17 facets in total. Classic single cut diamonds feature an 8/8 facet arrangement, 8 facets on the crown (top) and 8 facets on the pavilion (bottom), plus a larger table facet for a total of 17 facets. That is the reason they are also referred to as eight-cut diamonds, and huit huit cut diamonds from the French “huit”, meaning eight.