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Definition of Tailorings
1. tailoring [n] - See also: tailoring
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tailorings
Literary usage of Tailorings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dramatic Opinions and Essays: With an Apology by Bernard Shaw (1907)
"When an actor has been condemned for years to move about the stage in ugly Bond
Street tailorings, producing an effect of suppressed emotion by his anxiety ..."
2. Dramatic Opinions and Essays with an Apology by Bernard Shaw (1907)
"When an actor has been condemned for years to move about the stage in ugly Bond
Street tailorings, producing an effect of suppressed emotion by his anxiety ..."
3. The Parliamentary Debatesby Thomas Curson Hansard, Great Britain Parliament by Thomas Curson Hansard, Great Britain Parliament (1824)
"... in extenuation of other charges of a graver nature— should, without any
doubting*, tailorings, or indecision whatever, make up his mind at once to take ..."
4. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1836)
"'But if the two tailorings must speak their speeches,' said Fanny, ' why was
there no variety in them? Why must both speak the same ? ..."
5. The Complete Poetical Works of Whittier by John Greenleaf Whittier (1894)
"... the webs of creed men spin Round simple truth, the children grown who build
With gilded cards their new Jerusalem, Busy, with sacerdotal tailorings And ..."
6. Dramatic Opinions and Essays: With an Apology by Bernard Shaw (1907)
"When an actor has been condemned for years to move about the stage in ugly Bond
Street tailorings, producing an effect of suppressed emotion by his anxiety ..."
7. Dramatic Opinions and Essays with an Apology by Bernard Shaw (1907)
"When an actor has been condemned for years to move about the stage in ugly Bond
Street tailorings, producing an effect of suppressed emotion by his anxiety ..."
8. The Parliamentary Debatesby Thomas Curson Hansard, Great Britain Parliament by Thomas Curson Hansard, Great Britain Parliament (1824)
"... in extenuation of other charges of a graver nature— should, without any
doubting*, tailorings, or indecision whatever, make up his mind at once to take ..."
9. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1836)
"'But if the two tailorings must speak their speeches,' said Fanny, ' why was
there no variety in them? Why must both speak the same ? ..."
10. The Complete Poetical Works of Whittier by John Greenleaf Whittier (1894)
"... the webs of creed men spin Round simple truth, the children grown who build
With gilded cards their new Jerusalem, Busy, with sacerdotal tailorings And ..."
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