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Synonyms for tailored
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : tey-lerd |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈteɪ lərd |
Définition of tailored
Origin :- 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.
- adj tailor-made
- She looked like a fashion-plate in a tailored gown and handsome hat.
- Extract from : « Hester's Counterpart » by Jean K. Baird
- By day she was always in tailored frocks of the strictest simplicity.
- Extract from : « The Cricket » by Marjorie Cooke
- Well barbered and tailored he would have presented a handsome appearance.
- Extract from : « Fighting Byng » by A. Stone
- Tailored seams do not require any extra allowance of material.
- Extract from : « The Library of Work and Play: Needlecraft » by Effie Archer Archer
- His shirt clung to his pecs and was tailored down to his narrow waist.
- Extract from : « Makers » by Cory Doctorow
- Life, after all, he tried to reason, was like a tailored garment.
- Extract from : « The Grizzly King » by James Oliver Curwood
- Women uniformed to the last degree of tailored exquisiteness.
- Extract from : « Half Portions » by Edna Ferber
- She wore a tailored suit of blue and had removed the jacket.
- Extract from : « Bunker Bean » by Harry Leon Wilson
- She and Emma had bathed their faces, rearranged their hair, and put on fresh lingerie blouses with their tailored suits.
- Extract from : « Grace Harlowe's Return to Overton Campus » by Jessie Graham Flower
- The woman had left them, with a swish of a frilled silk petticoat under a tailored skirt, when Sylvia looked at Lucinda.
- Extract from : « The Shoulders of Atlas » by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
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