BESPOKE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bespoke mean? 

• BESPOKE (adjective)
  The adjective BESPOKE has 1 sense:

1. (of clothing) custom-made

  Familiarity information: BESPOKE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BESPOKE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(of clothing) custom-made

Synonyms:

bespoke; bespoken; made-to-order; tailor-made; tailored

Similar:

custom; custom-made (made according to the specifications of an individual)

 Context examples 

It would be of no use to go to Uppercross again, for that other Miss Musgrove, I find, is bespoke by her cousin, the young parson.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

I am bespoke myself, said Uriah, on business; otherwise I should have been appy to have kept with my friends.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He approached; his countenance bespoke bitter anguish, combined with disdain and malignity, while its unearthly ugliness rendered it almost too horrible for human eyes.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

A dead silence throughout the room, with a rolling of heads and upturning of eyes, bespoke the pious horror of the community.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He recognised One Ear's yell of pain and terror, and he heard a wolf-cry that bespoke a stricken animal.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

The dinner was a grand one, the servants were numerous, and every thing bespoke the Mistress's inclination for show, and the Master's ability to support it.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Berkeley Craven was saying in the club last night that there is not a bed within twenty miles of Crawley which is not bespoke, and that they are charging three guineas for the night.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Late at night they arrived at an inn; and as it was bad travelling in the dark, and the duck seemed much tired, and waddled about a good deal from one side to the other, they made up their minds to fix their quarters there: but the landlord at first was unwilling, and said his house was full, thinking they might not be very respectable company: however, they spoke civilly to him, and gave him the egg which Partlet had laid by the way, and said they would give him the duck, who was in the habit of laying one every day: so at last he let them come in, and they bespoke a handsome supper, and spent the evening very jollily.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Smooth-shaven, every line was distinct, and it was cut as clear and sharp as a cameo; while sea and sun had tanned the naturally fair skin to a dark bronze which bespoke struggle and battle and added both to his savagery and his beauty.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Such was the information of the first five minutes; the second unfolded thus much in detail—that they had driven directly to the York Hotel, ate some soup, and bespoke an early dinner, walked down to the pump-room, tasted the water, and laid out some shillings in purses and spars; thence adjourned to eat ice at a pastry-cook's, and hurrying back to the hotel, swallowed their dinner in haste, to prevent being in the dark; and then had a delightful drive back, only the moon was not up, and it rained a little, and Mr. Morland's horse was so tired he could hardly get it along.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)