bespoke
/bɪˈspəʊk
/adjective British
1(Of goods, especially clothing) made to order: a bespoke suit...
- A latter-day dandy, he was renowned as much for his cut-glass vowels as for his Savile Row suits, bespoke shirts and handmade brogues.
- At that point, you may as well consider ordering a bespoke suit.
- A bespoke suit really does cover flaws perfectly.
1.1(Of a trader) making bespoke items of clothing: the bespoke tailors of Savile Row...
- I passed bespoke tailors and furriers with 'liquidacion' painted across the windows, bored shop assistants watching children pick over the garbage outside.
- Gerard, a bespoke tailor with 52 years of experience in the trade, started chalking cloth again.
- There is such a shortage of bespoke tailors in Britain that shops based in London's exclusive Savile Row ask him to create suits at his factory for some of their most famous clients.
1.2(Of a computer program) written or adapted for a specific user or purpose: completely bespoke software systems...
- My business uses a bespoke software program to hold details of all my staff and customers.
- Contours from maps can be plotted into a bespoke program that will work out their position in 3 - D space and give them an x, y, z value.
- And with the hard disk went that collection of databases, shareware and bespoke programming that he had assembled.
