Crossword clues for tailor
tailor
- Suit worker
- Suit expert
- Sartorial expert
- One who seams just fine?
- One who might cuff you?
- Make alterations
- Clothing alterer
- Catherine song they made fit?
- Alteration maker
- "Tinker ___ Soldier Spy"
- Worker who gives people fits?
- User of French chalk
- Tuxedo shop worker
- Suiting man
- Suit man
- Savile Row proprietor
- Savile Row pro
- Savile Row man
- Rialto (anag) — adjust to a specific need
- Pincushion user
- Person with a fitting job?
- Person with a fitting career?
- Person who alters clothing
- Person making alterations
- Person altering clothes
- One whose job is fitting?
- One who will give you fits
- One who hems pants
- One who hems but doesn't haw?
- One who gives you fits?
- One who can give you a leg up
- One using chalk
- One may take in a lot
- One always making adjustments on the job?
- Needle wielder
- Make to fit
- Le Carré's "Tinker ___ Soldier Spy"
- His work is fitting
- He'll suit you
- He takes things in
- He hems, but doesn't haw
- Garment District denizen
- Fitting employee
- Do some hemming, but not hawing
- Clothes mender
- Chalk user
- Bespoke provider
- Andrew Johnson, at first
- Altering ace
- Alterations expert
- Adapt, as for a specific purpose
- Adapt to a need
- Adapt for a specific purpose
- Shakespeare's Robin Starveling
- A sew-and-sew?
- Make fit
- One who hems, but doesn't haw
- Pin holder
- One who'll give you fits
- One with a fitting job
- One who may give you fits
- One doing fitting work
- One who knows what's suitable?
- Measuring tape user
- Pin-up figure?
- Custom-make
- Worker who has people in stitches?
- Either of two characters in "The Emperor's New Clothes"
- Suitable job?
- One getting lots of take-out orders?
- Baba Mustafa, in "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves"
- Worker on London's Savile Row
- A person whose occupation is making and altering garments
- He handles suits
- "Tinker, ___, Soldier, Spy"
- He suits people
- He has vested interests
- He keeps one in stitches
- Custom-create
- Fashion
- Alter to fit
- Bushelman
- He suits the customer
- Garment worker
- His work is habit forming
- Tom of Coventry was one
- Who starts the most suits?
- Savile Row businessman
- Garment maker alternatively extending part hanging at back of coat
- Others acquire their habits from him
- Suit maker
- Shadow old Republican worker in Savile Row
- Follow or adapt
- Fleet's last crew member gets rid of small cutter
- Boatman changes heading: he knows how to tack
- Boatman changing direction for chemist’s last place on the 24
- I see mariner's brought round cutter
- Tradesman to go after gold
- Tinker's follower could suit you
- Man of the cloth?
- Maker of menswear
- Take in, perhaps
- Take in, maybe
- Fitting occupation?
- Clothes maker
- Suits are his strong suit
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Silversides \Sil"ver*sides`\, n. (Zo["o]l.) Any one of several species of small fishes of the family Atherinid[ae], having a silvery stripe along each side of the body. The common species of the American coast ( Menidia notata) is very abundant. Called also silverside, sand smelt, friar, tailor, and tinker.
Brook silversides (Zo["o]l.), a small fresh-water North American fish ( Labadesthes sicculus) related to the marine silversides.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1660s, from tailor (n.). Figurative sense of "to design (something) to suit needs" is attested from 1942. Related: Tailored; tailoring.
c.1300, from Anglo-French tailour, Old French tailleor "tailor," also "stone-mason" (13c., Modern French tailleur), literally "a cutter," from tailler "to cut," from Late Latin or old Medieval Latin taliare "to split" (compare Medieval Latin taliator vestium "a cutter of clothes"), from Latin talea "a slender stick, rod, staff; a cutting, twig."\n\nAlthough 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]
\nThe post-Latin sense development would be "piece of a plant cut for grafting," hence a verb, "cut a shoot," then, generally, "to cut." Possible cognates include Sanskrit talah "wine palm," Old Lithuanian talokas "a young girl," Greek talis "a marriageable girl" (for sense, compare slip of a girl, twiggy), Etruscan Tholna, name of the goddess of youth.\n\nKent. ... You cowardly rascal, nature disclaims in thee; a tailor made thee.\nCorn. Thou art a strange fellow: a tailor make a man?\n
Kent. Ay, a tailor, sir: a stone cutter, or a painter, could not have made him so ill, though they had been but two hours at the trade.\n
["King Lear"]
\nOne who makes outer garments to order, as opposed to a clothier, who makes them for sale ready-made. Tailor-made first recorded 1832 (in a figurative sense); literal sense was "heavy and plain, with attention to exact fit and with little ornamentation," as of women's garments made by a tailor rather than a dress-maker.Wiktionary
n. 1 A person who makes, repairs, or alters clothes professionally, especially suits and men's clothing. 2 (context Australia English) The fish (taxlink Pomatomus saltatrix species noshow=1). vb. 1 (context transitive English) To make, repair, or alter clothes. 2 (context transitive English) To make or adapt (something) for a specific need. 3 (context transitive English) To restrict (something) in order to meet a particular need
WordNet
v. make fit for a specific purpose [syn: shoehorn]
style and tailor in a certain fashion; "cut a dress" [syn: cut]
create (clothes) with cloth; "Can the seamstress sew me a suit by next week?" [syn: sew, tailor-make]
Wikipedia
A tailor is a person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing professionally.
Tailor may also refer to:
- Bluefish (Pomatomus saltatrix), also known as tailors
- The Tailor, or Scissorman, a bogeyman character from Heinrich Hoffman's Struwwelpeter
A tailor is a person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing professionally, especially suits and men's clothing.
Although the term dates to the thirteenth century, tailor took on its modern sense in the late eighteenth century, and now refers to makers of men's and women's suits, coats, trousers, and similar garments, usually of wool, linen, or silk.
The term refers to a set of specific hand and machine sewing and pressing techniques that are unique to the construction of traditional jackets. Retailers of tailored suits often take their services internationally, traveling to various cities, allowing the client to be measured locally.
Traditional tailoring is called " bespoke tailoring" in the United Kingdom, where the heart of the trade is London's Savile Row tailoring, and "custom tailoring" in the United States and Hong Kong. This is unlike made to measure which uses pre-existing patterns. A bespoke garment or suit is completely original and unique to each customer.
Famous fictional tailors include the tailor in The Tailor of Gloucester, '' The Emperor's New Clothes '' and The Valiant Little Tailor. A more recent example is John le Carré's The Tailor of Panama.
Usage examples of "tailor".
Henry le Waleys, the mayor, Gregory de Rokesley, Philip Cissor, or the tailor, Ralph Crepyn, Joce le Acatour, or merchant, and John de Gisors.
Annabelle be seen in only the most gracious and laudatory light: a light designed specifically so that the Duke of Acton would see in her a young woman magnificently tailored to bear the title Duchess.
After the first ecstacy was over, I proceeded to examine her beauties, and with my usual amorous frenzy told her that she should send her tailor out to graze and live with me.
I spent the day in seeing that a suit was made for her, and I felt quite amorous when Pegu, the tailor, measured her for the breeches.
From the pure white kaffiyeh on his head bound by the heavy silver-and-black cords of an argal, to the expensive tailored suit on his large frame and his handmade shoes, he was the embodiment of Middle East wealth and power.
A subjective viewpoint, tailored to fit what the drunk tank prisoners saw, the assaulters trying to flee the cellblock and liberate other inmates.
The coat, quite new, was before me, and my heart began to beat, but supposing the tailor had not put it in!
Just then Ned Cooley stood up on the far side of the pickup and began walking around it, cowboy hat pushed back on his head, hands in the pockets of his tailored gray pants.
I had puzzled my head for several hours as to what substitute I could find for tinder--the only thing I still lacked, and which I could not ask for under any pretense whatsoever--when I remembered that I had told the tailor to put some under the armpits of my coat to prevent the perspiration spoiling the stuff.
When we rose from the table kissing became general, and the countess could not resist laughing when she found herself obliged to hold out her cheeks for the salute of the tailor, who thought her laughter a special mark of favour.
It was a deep, cushiony one, different from the tailored pieces her mother favored, and when she and Graham had been furniture shopping, she had fallen in love with it on sight.
He walked rapidly to the bridge and took a cab to Conduit Street, where dwelt a firm of tailors with whose Paris branch he had had dealings in his dandiacal past.
We heard the Demarchy had tailored the sulphur-based metabolism of the ventlings for human use.
Hence the eidetic memory of childhood, enabling rules of perception to be developed, could smoothly transpose at the approach of puberty into the more linear forms of adult memory, whilst incorporating, for each individual, a uniquely tailored set of such rules which would order their later experience.
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