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noun

Tailor n.

One whose occupation is to cut out and make men's garments; also, one who cuts out and makes ladies' outer garments. "Well said, good woman's tailor... I would thou wert a man's tailor."

(Zool.)

(a)

The mattowacca; called also tailor herring.

(b)

The silversides.

(Zool.) The goldfish. (Prov. Eng.)

Salt-water tailor (Zool.), the bluefish. (Local, U. S.)

Tailor bird (Zool.), any one of numerous species of small Asiatic and East Indian singing birds belonging to Orthotomus, Prinia, and allied genera. They are noted for the skill with which they sew leaves together to form nests. The common Indian species are Orthotomus longicauda, which has the back, scapulars, and upper tail coverts yellowish green, and the under parts white; and the golden-headed tailor bird (Orthotomus coronatus), which has the top of the head golden yellow and the back and wings pale olive-green.

verb

Tailor v. i. (past & past part. tailored; pres. part. tailoring) To practice making men's clothes; to follow the business of a tailor. "These tailoring artists for our lays Invent cramped rules."

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"Tailor" Quotes from Famous Books

... every comfort, and make what are luxuries to the millions necessities to their children; when the youth is furnished clothes made by the tailor, and money to spend as he will, and special schools and the most expensive university; when he is given vacations at seashore, in mountains, on lake, or abroad, instead of at good hard work, as the sons of the people must spend their vacations; ...

— The Young Man and the World • Albert J. Beveridge

... ploughboys dressed in old family liveries for a public day. In the hall is a very good collection of pictures, all animals; the refectory, now the great drawing-room, is full of Byrons; the vaulted roof remaining, but the windows have new dresses making for them by a Venetian tailor. Althorpe has several very fine pictures by the best Italian hands, and a gallery of all one's acquaintance by Vandyke and Lely. I wonder you never saw it; it is but six miles from Northampton. Well, good night; I ...

— Letters of Horace Walpole - Volume I • Horace Walpole

... said that with regard to a gathering of our good friend, Willie Birnie, the tailor. I can understand how she should not find time to go there. But how you should find time to shine on that occasion, and have none to spare for Mrs Roxbury's select affair, is more ...

— Janet's Love and Service • Margaret M Robertson

... who had no tunic were ordered to get one. A tailor came on board and took the measurement of such men, taking on shore the cloth to make the tunics. Twenty-six shillings were deducted from my payment, this being the price of my tunic, as I belonged to the class who ...

— From Lower Deck to Pulpit • Henry Cowling

... richness of dress throughout, but soberly behind the fashion: while the hat was a very shabby and broken one, and the whip still more shabby and broken; all which indicated to Tom that his lordship let his tailor and his valet dress him; and though not unaware that it behoved him to set out his person as it deserved, was far too fine a gentleman to trouble ...

— Two Years Ago, Volume II. • Charles Kingsley

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