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Definition of Tailor-make

1. Verb. Create (clothes) with cloth. "They tailor-make the cape "; "Can the seamstress sew me a suit by next week?"

2. Verb. Make to specifications. "The men tailor-make the bookshelves"; "I had this desk custom-made for me"

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tailor-make

taillies taillight taillights taillike tailor tailor's tailor's chalk tailor's cramp tailor's dummy tailor's ham

tailor's muscle tailor's spasm tailor's tack tailor-fashion tailor-made tailor-make (current term) tailorable tailorbird tailorbirds tailored

tailoress tailoresses tailoring tailorings tailorless tailormade tailors tailour tailours tailpiece

Literary usage of Tailor-make

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Twenty-one Days in India: Being the Tour of Sir Ali Baba, K.C.B. by George Aberigh-Mackay (1896)
"... the Supreme Council generally meet for riddles ' and forfeits in the snug little cloak-room parlour at Peterhoff. " Can an army tailor make ..."

2. The Boy's Yearly Book by John Tillotson (1867)
""A tailor make a man?" Such is the query which is put into the mouth of ... A tailor make a man ? —yes, why not ? How many men are by their tailors made ? ..."

3. Practical Lessons in German conversation: A Companion to all German Grammars by Albert L.. Meissner (1898)
"What does the tailor make ? Who makes shoes and boots ? ... Out of what does the tailor make all sorts of garments (articles of clothing) ? ..."

4. Practical Lessons in German Conversation: A Companion to All German Grammars by Albert L. Meissner (1888)
"What does the tailor make ? Who makes shoes and boots ? ... Out of what does the tailor make all sorts of garments (articles of clothing) ? ..."

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