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TAILORING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does tailoring mean?
• TAILORING (noun)
The noun TAILORING has 1 sense:
1. the occupation of a tailor
Familiarity information: TAILORING used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The occupation of a tailor
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("tailoring" is a kind of...):
craft; trade (the skilled practice of a practical occupation)
Derivation:
tailor (create (clothes) with cloth)
Context examples
Oh! answered the man, that is not my sort of tailoring; come with me, and you will learn quite another kind of craft from that.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
Not knowing what better to do, he came into the plan, and learnt tailoring from the beginning; and when he left his master, he gave him a needle, and said, You can sew anything with this, be it as soft as an egg or as hard as steel; and the joint will be so fine that no seam will be seen.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
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