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tailor
1[ tey-ler ]
noun
- a person whose occupation is the making, mending, or altering of clothes, especially suits, coats, and other outer garments.
verb (used with object)
- to make by tailor's work.
- to fashion or adapt to a particular taste, purpose, need, etc.:
to tailor one's actions to those of another.
- to fit or furnish with clothing.
- 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)
- to do the work of a tailor.
tailor
2[ tey-ler ]
noun
- a stroke of a bell indicating someone's death; knell.
tailor
/ ˈteɪlə /
noun
- a person who makes, repairs, or alters outer garments, esp menswear sartorial
- a voracious and active marine food fish, Pomatomus saltator, of Australia with scissor-like teeth
verb
- to cut or style (material, clothes, etc) to satisfy certain requirements
- tr to adapt so as to make suitable for something specific
he tailored his speech to suit a younger audience
- intr to follow the occupation of a tailor
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Example Sentences
One minute the script, the next a story about Ivor Novello's tailor or the Tahiti steamer schedule in the Thirties.
He had a tailor who ran up dozens of the same suit in different sizes to account for slight variations in his weight.
He looked, that dreadful afternoon, as if he had just come from his barber, tailor and haberdasher.
The reason why these guys are so successful is because they have no egos, and specifically tailor the parts for the actor.
We should think about mental health more like how we tailor physical training routines.
The tailor of the fairy tale with his "seven at a blow" is not in it with the gunnery Lieutenant of a battleship.
But she is greatly interested in certain shops that she is buying out, and especially in her visits to her tailor.
Is a Tailor, that can make a new Coat well, the worse Workman, because he can mend an old one?
Well, I am either a tailor or a cooper, and for the life of me I can't tell which: at any rate, I'm either one or the other.
Purt was gorgeous in a Canadian skating suitor so the tailor who sold it to him had called it.
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