Definitions for tailored

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tailored tai·lored

Spelling: [tey-lerd]

IPA: /ˈteɪ lərd/

Tailored is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 467 anagrams from letters in tailored (adeilort).

Definitions for tailored

noun

1. a person whose occupation is the making, mending, or altering of clothes, especially suits, coats, and other outer garments.

adjective

1. (of a woman's garment) in a simple or plain style with fitted lines. Compare dressmaker (def 2).
2. having simple, straight lines and a neat appearance:

verb (used with object)

1. to make by tailor's work.
2. to fashion or adapt to a particular taste, purpose, need, etc.:
3. to fit or furnish with clothing.
4. Chiefly U.S. Military. to make (a uniform) to order; cut (a ready-made uniform) so as to cause to fit more snugly; taper.

verb (used without object)

1. to do the work of a tailor.

Origin of tailored

First recorded in 1855-60; tailor¹ + -ed²

Examples for tailored

Anderson cuts an exotic figure himself, with his tailored suits, long hair and love of unusual neckwear.

Well barbered and tailored he would have presented a handsome appearance.

tailored seams do not require any extra allowance of material.

She looked like a fashion-plate in a tailored gown and handsome hat.

His shirt clung to his pecs and was tailored down to his narrow waist.

If a sidekick is flamboyantly dressed in pastels or tailored velvet, he must be morally corruptible.

Get your own tailored tuxedo blazer to traipse around town in.

And their message was one tailored to the disaffected young descendants of Muslim immigrants in Europe.

Salahaddin is an internal province of Iraq, and its force was tailored for counterinsurgency.

By day she was always in tailored frocks of the strictest simplicity.