tailoressn.
/teɪləˈrɛs/, /ˈteɪlərᵻs/, U.S. /ˈteɪlərəs/ A woman who works as a tailor; a woman tailor.
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1654 E. Gayton Pleasant Notes Don Quixot iv. ix. 234 The Protean Tayloresse..could never be found in the same shape above once.
1771 Boston Gaz. 11 Nov. 3/1.
1837 N. Hawthorne Twice-told Tales (1851) II. i. 9 At one of the back windows I observed some pretty tailoresses, sewing, and chatting.
1860 Macmillan's Mag. 2 46 There are sweaters' dens in London where living wages are utterly out of the reach of the poor tailoress.
1891 Times 2 Nov. 5/3.
Derivatives
ˈtailoress v. (intransitive) to follow the occupation of a tailoress.
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1865 A. D. Whitney Gayworthys xxiii. 231 It's nice to get a glimpse of Eunice when she isn't tailoressing.
1888 Queen 7 Apr. 425 Tailoring for Ladies (and not Tailoressing) is carried on at Ulster House.
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