About The Word Tailor
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Tailor
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What's The Definition Of Tailor?
[n] a person whose occupation is making and altering garments
[v] make fit for a specific purpose [v] create (clothes) with cloth; "Can the seamstress sew me a suit by next week?" [v] style and tailor in a certain fashion; "cut a dress"; "style a wedding dress" Synonyms | Synonyms for Tailor: cut | sartor | seamster | sew | shoehorn | style | tailor-make Related Terms | Find terms related to Tailor: See Also | accommodate | adapt | design | fashion | fitter | forge | garment worker | garmentmaker | garmentworker | gore | quilt | run up Tailor In Webster's Dictionary \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. --Shak.
2. (Zo["o]l.)
(a) The mattowacca; -- called also {tailor herring}.
(b) The silversides.
3. (Zo["o]l.) The goldfish. [Prov. Eng.]
{Salt-water tailor} (Zo["o]l.), the bluefish. [Local, U. S.]
--Bartlett.
{Tailor bird} (Zo["o]l.), 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.
\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. --M. Green. |
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