tailleur

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The house must also have two separate workshops: a "tailleur" workshop for structured, architectural garments such as jackets, coats and trousers, and a "flou" workshop for soft, fluid pieces such as dresses or blouses.

From Barron's • Jan. 26, 2026

Madame la Mar�chale, 67, was dignified in a straw sailor and a high-necked light tailleur.

From Time Magazine Archive

Opposite the tailleur, and on his right and left, are persons called croupiers, whose business it is to pay and to collect money.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 281, November 3, 1827 by Various

There are two chefs-de-parties employed to supervise the game, and four croupiers to receive the losing stakes and pay the winning ones, one of the croupiers also being the tailleur, or dealer of the cards.

From Hoyle's Games Modernized by Hoffmann, Louis

It is true that the elegant and capricious Madame de Pompadour owed most of her toilets and elegant accoutrements to the genius of Supplis, the famous tailleur pour dames or ladies' tailor, of the epoch.

From Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885 by Various