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tailor

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tai·lor  (tlr)
n.
One that makes, repairs, and alters garments such as suits, coats, and dresses.
v. tai·lored, tai·lor·ing, tai·lors
v.tr.
1. To make (a garment), especially to specific requirements or measurements.
2. To fit or provide (a person) with clothes made to that person's measurements.
3. To make, alter, or adapt for a particular end or purpose: a speech that was tailored to an audience of business leaders.
v.intr.
To pursue the trade of a tailor.

[Middle English, from Anglo-Norman taillour, from Old French tailleor, from taillier, to cut, from Late Latin tlire, from Latin tlea, a cutting.]

tailor
Noun
a person who makes, repairs, or alters outer garments, esp. menswear Related adjective sartorial
Verb
1. to cut or style (a garment) to satisfy specific requirements
2. to adapt (something) so as to make it suitable: activities are tailored to participants' capabilities [Old French taillier to cut]
tailored adj
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.tailortailor - a person whose occupation is making and altering garments
fitter - someone who fits a garment to a particular person
garment worker, garment-worker, garmentmaker - a person who makes garments
Verb1.tailor - adjust to a specific need or market; "a magazine oriented towards young people"; "tailor your needs to your surroundings"
adapt, accommodate - make fit for, or change to suit a new purpose; "Adapt our native cuisine to the available food resources of the new country"
2.tailor - style and tailor in a certain fashion; "cut a dress"
fashion - the latest and most admired style in clothes and cosmetics and behavior
gore - cut into gores; "gore a skirt"
design - create the design for; create or execute in an artistic or highly skilled manner; "Chanel designed the famous suit"
3.tailor - create (clothes) with cloth; "Can the seamstress sew me a suit by next week?"
fashion, forge - make out of components (often in an improvising manner); "She fashioned a tent out of a sheet and a few sticks"
run up - make by sewing together quickly; "run up a skirt"
quilt - create by stitching together

tailor
verb 2. adapt, adjust, modify, cut, style, fit, fashion, shape, suit, convert, alter, accommodate, mould, customize >> adjective sartorial
Translations
Spanish tailor [ˈteɪləʳ] nsastre m
vt to tailor sth (to) → confeccionar algo a medida (para);
tailor's (shop) → sastrería

French tailor [ˈteɪləʳ] ntailleur m (artisan)
vt to tailor sth (to) → adapter qch exactement (à);
tailor's (shop) → (boutique f de) tailleur m

German tailor [ˈteɪləʳ] nSchneider(in) m(f)
vt to tailor sth (to) → etw abstimmen (auf +acc);
tailor's shop → Schneiderei f

Italian tailor [ˈteɪləʳ] nsarto
vt to tailor sth (to) → adattare qc (alle esigenze di);
tailor's (shop) → sartoria (da uomo)

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I entered the town, and stopped at a tailor s shop to inquire where I was.
It would have been all over with her, likewise, if, by good fortune, a tailor who was travelling in search of work, had not sat down to rest by the brook.
Macey, tailor and parish-clerk, the latter of which functions rheumatism had of late obliged him to share with a small-featured young man who sat opposite him, held his white head on one side, and twirled his thumbs with an air of complacency, slightly seasoned with criticism.
 
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