Get your own tailored tuxedo blazer to traipse around town in.
And their message was one tailored to the disaffected young descendants of Muslim immigrants in Europe.
If a sidekick is flamboyantly dressed in pastels or tailored velvet, he must be morally corruptible.
Salahaddin is an internal province of Iraq, and its force was tailored for counterinsurgency.
Anderson cuts an exotic figure himself, with his tailored suits, long hair and love of unusual neckwear.
She looked like a fashion-plate in a tailored gown and handsome hat.
By day she was always in tailored frocks of the strictest simplicity.
Well barbered and tailored he would have presented a handsome appearance.
tailored seams do not require any extra allowance of material.
His shirt clung to his pecs and was tailored down to his narrow waist.
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.
1660s, from tailor (n.). Figurative sense of "to design (something) to suit needs" is attested from 1942. Related: Tailored; tailoring.
