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▪ I. tailoring, vbl. n.|ˈteɪlərɪŋ|
[f. tailor v. + -ing1.]
a. The action or business of a tailor; the making of garments.
1662Petty Taxes xv. Tracts (1769) 83 The value of wool, clothing, and tayloring, even to the thread and needles might be comprehended. 1831Carlyle Sart. Res. i. v, Neither in tailoring nor in legislating does man proceed by mere Accident. 1888Queen 7 Apr. 425 Tailoring for Ladies (and not Tailoressing) is carried on at Ulster House. 1899Allbutt's Syst. Med. VI. 704 Unable to follow her occupation of tailoring.
b. The production of the tailor; tailor's work.
18..Whittier Pr. Wks. (1889) II. 239 Priests, stripped of their sacerdotal tailoring, were in his view but men, after all. 1899Whiteing 5 John St. xxiv. 246 In all the glory of the best tailoring in town.
c. fig. The act of adjusting or producing to suit specific needs. orig. U.S.
1943Sun (Baltimore) 5 Feb. 4/5 Thirty-seven ration boards in the State now are completing the tailoring of ration books. 1951Times 21 Sept. 1/5 (Advt.), Highpolymer chemist for applied research on the ‘tailoring’ of linear macromolecules required by an important, very modern works in S.W. England. 1979United States 1980/81 (Penguin Travel Guides) p. xii, Very precise editing and tailoring keeps our text fiercely subjective.
d. attrib.
1850Kingsley Cheap Clothes in Alt. Locke (1881) II. 101 The means of reducing prices in the tailoring trade. 1886C. E. Pascoe Lond. of To-day xli. (ed. 3) 352 The most finished examples of the tailoring art.
▪ II. tailoring, ppl. a.|ˈteɪlərɪŋ|
[-ing2.]
That does tailor's work. In quot. fig.
1737M. Green Spleen 520 These Tayl'ring artists for our lays Invent cramp'd rules, and with strait stays..Emaciate sense, before they fit. |