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Tailor-made   /tˈeɪlər-meɪd/   Listen
adjective
Tailor-made  adj.  
1.
Made by a tailor or according to a tailor's fashion; said specif. of women's garments made with certain closeness of fit, simplicity of ornament, etc.
2.
Made or as if made specifically for the particular purpose at hand; used metaphorically.





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"Tailor-made" Quotes from Famous Books



... more fully into the light before him. As it fell upon the graceful curves of her lissom figure, it was easy to perceive that she was wearing one of Madame BEAUMONT's celebrated Porcupine Quill Corsets, which lent a wonderful finish to a two-guinea tailor-made gingham cloth "Gem" costume, braided with best silk (horn buttons included), which showed off her young form ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 99., December 27, 1890 • Various
... arts as you knew them in your youth can't be practised in the home any more on the income of the average man. Most women of the kind we're talking about wear ready-made clothes—not because they're lazy, but because the tailor-made suits which life in a city demands can't be made by any amateur sempstress. They're turned out by the carload in great factories from designs of experts. There's no bread to bake in the modern mechanic's home, for better bread and cake are made more ...
— A Hoosier Chronicle • Meredith Nicholson
... his glance. A tall girl in a tailor-made suit of blue was coming towards them. Even at a distance one caught the genial personality of the new arrival. It seemed to go before her like a heartening breeze. She picked her way carefully through the children crawling on the side walk. ...
— A Damsel in Distress • Pelham Grenville Wodehouse
... dilapidation of her tailor-made, which looked the fresher for being pressed under the mattress; she always travelled boot-trees, so her shoes were all right, and the two Jacob's ladders, falling on the outside of her stockings, looked just like clocks neatly mended; ...
— Desert Love • Joan Conquest
... about blue; any shade of blue, I don't care what it is. I know I can't go wrong about a colour. But then there's the style—" Flossie's fingers turned over the pages with soft lingering touches, while her face expressed the gravest hesitation. "Keith likes me best in these stiff tailor-made things; but I can't bear them. I like more ...
— The Divine Fire • May Sinclair


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