tailleur

[ tah-yur ]

noun

1. a tailored tailor tailored or tailor-made costume for women.

Word History and Origins

Origin of tailleur¹

1920–25; French: literally, tailor; tailor ¹, -eur

Example Sentences

She was clad in a navy blue tailleur with a very smart pair of high navy blue kid boots and small navy blue silk hat.

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Still, external stoicism prevailed, on the whole, and had a fixed example in the tailleur and the croupiers.

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Opposite the tailleur, and on his right and left, are persons called croupiers, whose business it is to pay and to collect money.

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Notre --, celui dont nous parlons (par ex.: notre médecin, notre tailleur).

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When those words broke upon her ear, “Madame, je suis tailleur,” she had felt herself to be speechless.

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