Definitions for tailors

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tailors tai·lor

Spelling: [tey-ler]

IPA: /ˈteɪ lər/

Tailors is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 308 anagrams from letters in tailors (ailorst).

Definitions for tailors

noun

1. a person whose occupation is the making, mending, or altering of clothes, especially suits, coats, and other outer garments.
2. a stroke of a bell indicating someone's death; knell.

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 tailors

1250-1300; Middle English (noun) Anglo-French tailour, Old French tailleor, equivalent to taill(ier) to cut (Late Latin tāliāre, derivative of Latin tālea a cutting, literally, heel-piece; se

Examples for tailors

I also love to go to the market, mostly to buy fabrics which I then take to my tailor.

We should think about mental health more like how we tailor physical training routines.

Hart Schaffner and Marx had not yet become rural America's tailor.

He had been a tailor in his time, and had kept a phaeton, he said.

He has the soul of a merchant tailor, actually, but not the tailor's manhood.

He looked, that dreadful afternoon, as if he had just come from his barber, tailor and haberdasher.

A suit of this kind should be as irreproachable in fit and finish as a tailor can make it.

Yea, like a woman, who deems a man safest when he is a tailor, or a perfumer.

One minute the script, the next a story about Ivor Novello's tailor or the Tahiti steamer schedule in the Thirties.

He had a tailor who ran up dozens of the same suit in different sizes to account for slight variations in his weight.