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tailored


adjective

  1. (of a woman’s garment) in a simple or plain style with fitted lines.Compare dressmaker(def 2).
  2. having simple, straight lines and a neat appearance: tailored slipcovers.

noun

  1. a person whose occupation is the making, mending, or altering of clothes, especially suits, coats, and other outer garments.

verb (used with object)

  1. to make by tailor’s work.
  2. to fashion or adapt to a particular taste, purpose, need, etc.: to tailor one’s actions to those of another.
  3. to fit or furnish with clothing.
  4. Chiefly U.S. Military. to make (a uniform) to order; cut (a ready-made uniform) so as to cause to fit more snugly; taper.

verb (used without object)

  1. to do the work of a tailor.

noun

  1. a person who makes, repairs, or alters outer garments, esp menswearRelated adjective: sartorial
  2. a voracious and active marine food fish, Pomatomus saltator, of Australia with scissor-like teeth

verb

  1. to cut or style (material, clothes, etc) to satisfy certain requirements
  2. (tr) to adapt so as to make suitable for something specifiche tailored his speech to suit a younger audience
  3. (intr) to follow the occupation of a tailor

n.late 13c., from Anglo-French tailour, Old French tailleor “tailor,” literally “a cutter,” from tailler “to cut,” from Medieval Latin taliator vestium “a cutter of clothes,” from Late Latin taliare “to split,” from Latin talea “a slender stick, rod, staff, a cutting, twig,” on the notion of a piece of a plant cut for grafting. Possible cognates include Sanskrit talah “wine palm,” Old Lithuanian talokas “a young girl,” Greek talis “a marriageable girl” (for sense, cf. slip of a girl, twiggy), Etruscan Tholna, name of the goddess of youth. Although historically the tailor is the cutter, in the trade the ‘tailor’ is the man who sews or makes up what the ‘cutter’ has shaped. [OED] Tailor-made first recorded 1832 (in a figurative sense); originally “heavy and plain,” as of women’s garments made by a tailor rather than a dress-maker. v.1660s, from tailor (n.). Figurative sense of “to design (something) to suit needs” is attested from 1942. Related: Tailored; tailoring.

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