Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tailor-made \Tai"lor-made`\, a.
Made by a tailor or according to a tailor's fashion; -- said specif. of women's garments made with certain closeness of fit, simplicity of ornament, etc.
made or as if made specifically for the particular purpose at hand; -- used metaphorically.
Wiktionary
a. 1 made by a tailor, especially if made to order; bespoke 2 perfectly appropriate to some specific occasion or purpose; made to one's specific requirements
WordNet
adj. of clothing [syn: bespoke, bespoken, made-to-order, tailored]
Usage examples of "tailor-made".
Both Broullard and Faucon wore tailor-made flying leathers of the highest quality with shirt and trousers underneath of richly patterned silk.
After our summer in the Maine woods I had gone back to find that my new tailor-made coat, which had fitted me exactly, and being stiffened with haircloth kept its shape off and looked as if I myself were hanging to the hook, had caved in on me in several places.
Valcour LeDeuxan older, alcohol-dissipated, though still handsome, version of Luc in an expensive, tailor-made suitstrolled forward with a bourbon in one hand and his nymphet common-law wife in the other.
And that Transcending was tailor-made, too, re-establishing the Power that had set the trap to begin with.
Portia had a figure that might have inspired a Swinburnian rhapsody, and Harry did full justice to this in his mind as she walked up the steps in a tailor-made Scotch tweed that sat closely, but not tightly, round her exquisite form.
Behind him Commodore Sean Braze glowered, his hands behind his back, big shoulders bulging under his tailor-made tunic, a pistol strapped to his hip as inconspicuously as a rattlesnake at a picnic.
Alas, she is also tailor-made for being taken advantage of in the cruel, ruthless real world, and although Benedict will do his best to shield and protect her, she may unwittingly provide a hook into future adventures as the players have to help her get her money back from a swindler who promised to "invest" it for her, and so forth.
But Blix was as sweet as a rose that morning, all in tailor-made black but for the inevitable bands of white satin wrapped high and tight about her neck.
MacDiarmid hustled away to join the rest of the investors, his exquisite handmade leather shoes slapping the paving, the cuffs of his wool tailor-made slacks shushing over their gleaming uppers, and as Lee-Daniel locked the bus down and armed it up, he watched the angel investor whisper in his co-shareholders' ears.
After all, a ceremonial joint session of Congress is a tailor-made event, a command performance.
But an illustration of a medieval ducking stool suggested that it was tailor-made for the purpose.
AIDS was tailor-made for the fantasies of the religious right, because it was genitally transmitted.
De Gier knew that he carried the measuring tape at all times, for the pocket of his tailor-made expensive suit bulged.
There was an elderly, obviously well-off couple, and opposite them a slick-haired, smooth-shaved, jowly, overweight, middle-aged young man in a tailor-made Oxford gray business suit.
Anna Halsey was about two hundred and forty pounds of middle-aged putty-faced woman in a black tailor-made suit.