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noun

Tailor n.

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."

(Zool.)

(a)

The mattowacca; called also tailor herring.

(b)

The silversides.

(Zool.) The goldfish. (Prov. Eng.)

Salt-water tailor (Zool.), the bluefish. (Local, U. S.)

Tailor bird (Zool.), 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 Orthotomus longicauda, which has the back, scapulars, and upper tail coverts yellowish green, and the under parts white; and the golden-headed tailor bird (Orthotomus coronatus), which has the top of the head golden yellow and the back and wings pale olive-green.

verb

Tailor v. i. (past & past part. tailored; pres. part. tailoring) To practice making men's clothes; to follow the business of a tailor. "These tailoring artists for our lays Invent cramped rules."

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Etymology of 'Tailor'

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"Tailor" Quotes from Famous Books

... my boat grated on the gravel my eyes fell on a young English lord who was holding the centre of the stage in the sunlight. He was dressed from head to foot in a skin-tight suit of underwear which had been cut for him by a Garden-of-Eden tailor. He was just out of the water—a straight, well-built, ruddy-skinned fellow—every inch a man! What birth and station had done for him would become apparent when his valet began to hand him his Bond Street outfit. The next ...

— The Parthenon By Way Of Papendrecht - 1909 • F. Hopkinson Smith

... tailor," says a fashion writer, "can always give his customer a good fit if he tries." All he has to do, of course, is to ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, April 14, 1920 • Various

... in the middle of the settee before the fire, only the back of her head being visible. She is reading a volume of Ibsen. She is a girl of eighteen, small and trim, wearing a smart tailor-made dress, rather short, and a Newmarket jacket, showing a white blouse with a light silk sash and a man's collar and watch chain so arranged as to look as like a man's waistcoat and shirt-front as possible without spoiling the prettiness ...

— The Philanderer • George Bernard Shaw

... loose-jointed English gait was a tall, yellow-haired chap, the size of a man, with a face sea-tanned between a pink and a brown, his long neck encircled with a very high, very stiff collar, his light grey suit pressed as if it had just arrived from the tailor's, and poor Banty's quick eye flew from the smiling pink face to the faultlessly-trousered legs—horrors! The trousers were long. (Banty had at least expected a boy of his own size and age.) But, worst of all, below the trousers gleamed immaculate ...

— The Shagganappi • E. Pauline Johnson

... a fat man, got to his feet and launched himself at the puncher. Dave flung the smaller of his opponents back against Steve, who was sitting tailor fashion beside him. The gunman tottered and fell over Russell, who lost no time in pinning his hands to the ground while Hart deftly removed the ...

— Gunsight Pass - How Oil Came to the Cattle Country and Brought a New West • William MacLeod Raine

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