Tailor

[tai·lor]

A tailor helps make your clothes fit you better. Similarly, when you tailor something to the needs of others, you are adjusting what you do to best suit them rather than taking a general approach.

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One whose occupation is to cut out and make men's garments; also, one who cuts out and makes ladies' outer garments.

Noun
a person whose occupation is making and altering garments

Verb
make fit for a specific purpose

Verb
create (clothes) with cloth; "Can the seamstress sew me a suit by next week?"

Verb
style and tailor in a certain fashion; "cut a dress"

n.
One whose occupation is to cut out and make men's garments; also, one who cuts out and makes ladies' outer garments.

n.
The mattowacca; -- called also tailor herring.

n.
The silversides.

n.
The goldfish.

v. i.
To practice making men's clothes; to follow the business of a tailor.

Tailor

Tai"lor , n. [OF. tailleor, F. tailleur, fr. OF. taillier, F. tailler to cut, fr. L. talea a rod, stick, a cutting, layer for planting. Cf. Detail, Entail, Retail, Tally, n.] 1. One whose occupation is to cut out and make men's garments; also, one who cuts out and makes ladies' outer garments.
Well said, good woman's tailor . . . I would thou wert a man's tailor.
2. (Zo'94l.) (a) The mattowacca; -- called also tailor herring. (b) The silversides. 3. (Zo'94l.) The goldfish. [Prov. Eng.] Salt-water tailor (Zo'94l.), the bluefish. [Local, U.S.] Bartlett. -- Tailor bird (Zo'94l.), any one of numerous species of small Asiatic and East Indian singing birds belonging to Orthotomus, Prinia, and allied genera. They are noted for the skill with which they sew leaves together to form nests. The common Indian species are O. longicauda, which has the back, scapulars, and upper tail coverts yellowish green, and the under parts white; and the golden-headed tailor bird (O. coronatus), which has the top of the head golden yellow and the back and wings pale olive-green.

Tailor

Tai"lor, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Tailored ; p. pr. & vb. n. Tailoring.] To practice making men's clothes; to follow the business of a tailor.
These tailoring artists for our lays Invent cramped rules.

One whose occupation is to cut out and make men's garments; also, one who cuts out and makes ladies' outer garments.

To practice making men's clothes; to follow the business of a tailor.

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Usage Examples

North Americans as a whole need to embrace having clothes altered to their body. I hear it all the time: why do the Europeans always look so good? They have a relationship with their tailor and spend the time and money to make their clothes look their best.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

My diminished girth, in tailor phraseology, was hardly conceivable even by my own friends, or my respected medical adviser, until I put on my former clothing, over what I now wear, which is a thoroughly convincing proof of the remarkable change.

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.