TAILORING

tailoring

(noun) the occupation of a tailor

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Verb

tailoring

present participle of tailor

Noun

tailoring (plural tailorings)

Work done by a tailor.

(figuratively) Any modification or ornamentation.

Anagrams

• gratiolin, largition

Source: Wiktionary

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Tai"lor*ing, adv.

Definition: The business or the work of a tailor or a tailoress.

TAILOR

Tai"lor, n. Etym: [OF. tailleor, F. tailleur, fr. OF. taillier, F. tailler to cut, fr. L. talea a rod, stick, a cutting, layer for planting. Cf. Detail, Entail, Retail, Tally, n.]

1. One whose occupation is to cut out and make men's garments; also, one who cuts out and makes ladies' outer garments. Well said, good woman's tailor . . . I would thou wert a man's tailor. Shak.

2. (Zoöl.) (a) The mattowacca; -- called also tailor herring. (b) The silversides.

3. (Zoöl.)

Definition: The goldfish. [Prov. Eng.] Salt-water tailor (Zoöl.), the bluefish. [Local, U.S.] Bartlett.

– Tailor bird (Zoöl.), any one of numerous species of small Asiatic and East Indian singing birds belonging to Orthotomus, Prinia, and allied genera. They are noted for the skill with which they sew leaves together to form nests. The common Indian species are O. longicauda, which has the back, scapulars, and upper tail coverts yellowish green, and the under parts white; and the golden-headed tailor bird (O. coronatus), which has the top of the head golden yellow and the back and wings pale olive-green.

Tai"lor, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Tailored; p. pr. & vb. n. Tailoring.]

Definition: To practice making men's clothes; to follow the business of a tailor. These tailoring artists for our lays Invent cramped rules. M. Green.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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