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Tailoring   /tˈeɪlərɪŋ/   Listen
Tailoring

noun
1.
The occupation of a tailor.



Tailor

verb
(past & past part. tailored; pres. part. tailoring)
1.
Adjust to a specific need or market.  Synonym: orient.  "Tailor your needs to your surroundings"
2.
Style and tailor in a certain fashion.  Synonym: cut.
3.
Create (clothes) with cloth.  Synonyms: sew, tailor-make.



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"Tailoring" Quotes from Famous Books



... English nobility, and met the grave William, who had been the richest citizen in the Netherlands, clad in an old serge cloak, and surrounded by plain Dutch burghers. But it was a meeting of men of one mind and heart in the great cause, and neither was disturbed by the tailoring of the other. The interview was the beginning of a faithful friendship, and among all the compliments Sidney received, none is so lofty and touching as that of William, the greatest man in Europe, who called him in their ...
— Literary and Social Essays • George William Curtis

... armed with a culverin on either quarter, was crowded with lounging corsairs, who took their ease there until the time to engage should be upon them. They leaned on the high bulwarks or squatted in groups, talking, laughing, some of them tailoring and repairing garments, others burnishing their weapons or their armour, and one swarthy youth there was who thrummed a gimri and sang a melancholy Shilha love-song to the delight of a score or so of bloodthirsty ruffians squatting about him in ...
— The Sea-Hawk • Raphael Sabatini

... Hitty; "I was laying out to cut it over next Wednesday, when Desire Smith could be here to do the tailoring. ...
— The May Flower, and Miscellaneous Writings • Harriet Beecher Stowe

... cleaning the decks and fittings of the ship generally, together with the loading and unloading of cargo. All these operations could be readily done under the direction of permanent hands. Then shoemaking, knitting, sewing, tailoring, and other kindred occupations could be engaged in. I should think sewing-machines could be worked, and, one way or another, any amount of garments could be manufactured, which would find ready and profitable sale on landing, either among the Colonists ...
— "In Darkest England and The Way Out" • General William Booth

... outward seeming met Amidon's eyes as he neared her. From the platform, it was an impressionistic view of a well-kept trap and horse, and a young woman wearing a picture-hat with a sweeping plume, habited in a gown of modish tailoring, and holding the reins in well-gauntleted hands. As he reached the middle of the street-crossing, the face, surmounted by dark hair, began to show its salient features—great dark eyes, strongly-marked ...
— Double Trouble - Or, Every Hero His Own Villain • Herbert Quick


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