Brazil is the largest coffee producer in the world. Each year Brazil exports more than 44 million bags of coffee. Vietnam follows at exporting over 27 million bags each year.
TAILORS
Proper noun
Tailors
plural of Tailor
Anagrams
• Triolas, oralist, sliotar, storial, striola
Noun
tailors
plural of tailor
Verb
tailors
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of tailor
Anagrams
• Triolas, oralist, sliotar, storial, striola
Source: Wiktionary
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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