tailoryn.
/ˈteɪləri/ 1. The art, craft, or occupation of a tailor.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > tailoring or making clothes > [noun] > tailor > trade or occupation of
tailoryc1449
seamstry1598
seamstering1822
tailorship1830
snipocracy1912
c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 49 Euen as sadelarie and talarie been ij. dyuerse facultees and kunnyngis.
1598 R. Haydocke tr. G. P. Lomazzo Tracte Artes Paintinge i. 1 The art of Weaving and Tailery.
1639 in T. Lechford's Note-bk. (1885) 91 Co-partners in the trade of Taylery.
1823 in Spirit of Public Jrnls. 151 A student in tailory, or ‘a tailor's apprentice’, as the ancients used to say.
2. A tailor's workshop or establishment.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > tailoring or making clothes > [noun] > place > shop
sartry1447
tailory1480
sartryn1483
1480 Wardrobe Accts. Edward IV in N. H. Nicolas Privy Purse Expenses Elizabeth of York (1830) 146 Coleyn threde delivered into the Tailloury.
1897 J. W. Clark Observ. Priory Barnwell p. lxxiv The Chamberlain is to..see that they [garments] are properly made in the tailery (sartrinum).
3. Tailors' work, tailors' wares; costumery.
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society > trade and finance > merchandise > [noun] > types of textile goods
merceryc1300
mercery ware1377
haberdasha1529
small ware1567
tailory1610
dry goods1657
woollen-drapery1688
soft goods1798
wallflower1804
linendrapery1849
hog round1910
the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > [noun] > made by specific manufacturer > by tailor
tailory1610
tailorism1839
tailorage1858
tailor-made1873
tailordom1895
tailoring1899
1610 J. Guillim Display of Heraldrie iv. vii. 205 Heereto we will annex some few examples of Taylorie.
1854 W. M. Thackeray J. Leech's Pictures in Wks. (1900) XIII. 489 Mr. Leech has as fine eye for tailory and millinery as for horse-flesh.
1891 Pall Mall Gaz. 11 July 2/2 How much time the Kaiser has to spend in the various changes from uniform to uniform... An eighth of his Majesty's time consumed in tailory!! Sartor resartus, indeed!
4. attributive.
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1901 Westm. Gaz. 9 May 3/1 What we call the tailory hat.
1906 Westm. Gaz. 8 Sept. 13/1 The little interregnum till the tailory clothes are ready.
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