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Synonyms for tailoring
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : tey-ler-ing |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈteɪ lər ɪŋ |
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Définition of tailoring
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.
- verb make to fit; adjust
- We had all to take to tailoring, sewing, mending, and cobbling.
- Extract from : « Brighter Britain! (Volume 1 of 2) » by William Delisle Hay
- The father of one had amassed a handsome fortune in the tailoring business.
- Extract from : « The Citizen-Soldier » by John Beatty
- And Polly declares there was never a year when the tailoring cost so little.
- Extract from : « If, Yes and Perhaps » by Edward Everett Hale
- This is what seems to have happened in the tailoring industry of England.
- Extract from : « Distributive Justice » by John A. (John Augustine) Ryan
- The movements of these creatures are as comical as their specimens of tailoring.
- Extract from : « The Book of the Aquarium and Water Cabinet » by Shirley Hibberd
- One night, at last, the master said to me: You have no talent for tailoring.
- Extract from : « Psychoanalysis » by Andr Tridon
- She had not made a skilful job of her tailoring but it would serve.
- Extract from : « Secret Service » by Cyrus Townsend Brady
- Printing, tailoring, blacksmithing, and painting are taught.
- Extract from : « Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, September 1899 » by Various
- "I find I have a natural gift at tailoring," cried Mrs. Miles.
- Extract from : « The Factory Boy » by Madeline Leslie
- We thus find that while the average in tailoring workshops is 14s.
- Extract from : « Women in Modern Industry » by B. L. Hutchins
Antonyms for tailoring
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