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Tailoring   /tˈeɪlərɪŋ/   Listen
Tailoring

noun
1.
The occupation of a tailor.



Tailor

verb
(past & past part. tailored; pres. part. tailoring)
1.
Adjust to a specific need or market.  Synonym: orient.  "Tailor your needs to your surroundings"
2.
Style and tailor in a certain fashion.  Synonym: cut.
3.
Create (clothes) with cloth.  Synonyms: sew, tailor-make.



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"Tailoring" Quotes from Famous Books



... would have come to Swedenborg, had not his clipt wings spread for a new flight. He hit upon the brilliant idea of working up his derelict fabrics into ready-mades: not men's clothes, oh no: women's, or rather, ladies'. Ladies' Tailoring, said the ...
— The Lost Girl • D. H. Lawrence

... space his clerk was writing at a lacquer desk of the stereotyped form—a low bench with the ends rolled over—a woman was tailoring, coolies were washing their feet on the itama, and several more were squatting round the irori smoking and drinking tea. A coolie servant washed some rice for my dinner, but before doing so took off his clothes, and the woman ...
— Unbeaten Tracks in Japan • Isabella L. Bird

... that all three were undoubtedly Americans; the cut of their straw hats and apparel distinguished them as such; the nameless grace of Mart, Haffner and Sharx marked the tailoring of the three; only Honest Werner could have manufactured such headgear; only ...
— The Dark Star • Robert W. Chambers

... is. Upon my word, whoever did that ought to make his fortune at some of these exhibitions. Here he is again, with a big pair of scissors. He calls himself 'England's honour;' what the deuce England's honour has to do with tailoring, I can't tell you: perhaps Mr Moffat can. But mind you, my friends, I don't say anything against tailoring: some of you are tailors, I ...
— Doctor Thorne • Anthony Trollope

... productions, of no earthly interest to anyone but the unromantic writers, one formal note soliciting a generous subscription to an hospital fund, two postal cards, one begging his patronage towards the tailoring department of an up-town dry goods store, and the other notifying him of a meeting of prominent citizens to be held in the City Hall, a couple of newspapers and legal documents, and there remained still two letters, less formidable looking, less ...
— Honor Edgeworth • Vera


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