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Tailor

Tāi'lor, n.

noun

n. [Fr. tailleur, from tailler, to cut, O. Fr. tailleor, tailleres. See supra.]

One whose occupation is to cut out and make men's garments.
(Ichth.) A kind of fish resembling the shad, but inferior to it in size and flavor. [U. S.]

☞ The blue fish is called salt-water tailor in some towns on the Potomac. Bartlett.

verbintransitive

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. Green.