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Definition of Retailored
1. retailor [v] - See also: retailor
Lexicographical Neighbors of Retailored
Literary usage of Retailored
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Mortal Moon: Or, Bacon and His Masksby John Elisha Roe by John Elisha Roe (1891)
"... his "Sartor Resartus" — the Tailor retailored. As the work deals largely with
his Shakespeare writings, it must of necessity grow its own wings. ..."
2. The Medical Clinics of North America by Richard J. Havel, K. Patrick Ober (1918)
"The ascites gradually disappeared, the man lost much weight, his girth became so
small that he had to have his trousers retailored, and, on the whole, ..."
3. Fact Finding Report: Commission on the Future of Worker-Management Relations by John T. Dunlop, United States Dept. of Labor, United States Dept. of Commerce (1994)
"Should the definition of "employer" be retailored to include the enterprise that
owns the structure or finances the project on which work is being done, ..."
4. From Chaucer to Tennyson: With Twenty-nine Portraits and Selections from by Henry Augustin Beers (1894)
"... (The Tailor retailored), published in Fraser's Magazine for 1833-1834, and
first reprinted in book form in America. This was a satire upon shams, ..."
5. From Chaucer to Tennyson: With Twenty-nine Portraits and Selections from by Henry Augustin Beers (1898)
"But Carlyle's epoch-making book was '' Sartor Resartus " (The Tailor retailored),
published in Eraser* s ..."
6. The Wilson Administration and the Great War by Ernest William Young (1922)
"But it was while they were turning their suits and having them retailored, that
men and women working for modest salaries and in ..."
7. Outline History of English and American Literature by Charles Frederick Johnson (1900)
"Here he wrote "Sartor Resartus" (the tailor retailored), a compound of biography,
satire, world philosophy, and allegory, in a strange, half-German style. ..."
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