Crossword clues for tailoring
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tailor \Tai"lor\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Tailored; p. pr. & vb. n. Tailoring.] To practice making men's clothes; to follow the business of a tailor.
These tailoring artists for our lays
Invent cramped rules.
--M. Green.
Tailoring \Tai"lor*ing\, adv. The business or the work of a tailor or a tailoress.
Wiktionary
n. 1 Work done by a tailor. 2 (context figuratively English) Any modification or ornamentation. vb. (present participle of tailor English)
WordNet
n. the occupation of a tailor
Usage examples of "tailoring".
Only when abstracted from their concrete practices could different laboring activities be brought together and seen in a homogeneous way, no longer as tailoring and weaving but as the expenditure of human labor power in general, as abstract labor.
His attempts at cutting and sewing, not to mention the more subtle of the tailoring arts, were inept in the extreme.
They slid at last into the docking point, and a security guard, soberly suited, but with the mirrored glasses that hid a heads-up display, and at least one minigun concealed in his perfect tailoring, keyed open the door.
Indeed, everybody knows that sailors have a remarkable aptitude for tailoring.
It was an honor to be here and he had prepared for weeks, rehearsing with Channing, tailoring his viewgraphs, making up four-color computer graphics to show sinuous flows and ruby-red plasma currents.
The tailoring by the eld skyle of his alpha androstenol did not appeal to Caitlin.
Meanwhile, I shall look for whatever street passes as Savile Row here, and visit every single tailoring establishment, in hope of discovering a costumier who yearns for far horizons.
At which Hannah throws another screaming fit and Mark locks himself in his room and plays 'Lazy Sheep' non-stop till Louisa beats on his door and says, 'Mark, they'll be here any minute,' which was true because the doorbell rang just at that moment and in marches Rafi Domingo with his body lotion and his insinuating leer and side-burns and crocodile shoes - not all of Harry's tailoring wiles could save him from looking like the worst kind of stage dago, her father would have ordered him round to the back door on the strength of his hair oil alone.
A dinkum comrade, Foo Moses Morris, co-signed much paper to keep us going—and wound up broke and started over with a little tailoring shop in Kongville.
A dinkum comrade, Foo Moses Morris, co-signed much paper to keep us going--and wound up broke and started over with a little tailoring shop in Kongville.
Gumb had progressed in tailoring far beyond what the California Department of Corrections had taught him in his youth, but this was a true challenge.
The sprouts were young and tender, a miracle of hydroponic agriculture and genetic tailoring, but Escrima was still inspecting them as critically as he did every item of food that passed through his kitchens.
Actually tailoring the genes in a fertilised human ovum so that the resulting baby will have specified talents, some of them - by implication - unprecedented in human history.
They gabbled it like idiots for some minutes, to the home secretary and the mayor who was with her, shaking them with frustration, their lips twitching for other sounds, blood spattering their bosses’ immaculate tailoring.
They gabbled it like idiots for some minutes, to the home secretary and the mayor who was with her, shaking them with frustration, their lips twitching for other sounds, blood spattering their bosses’ immaculate tailoring.