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tailor

Definition for tailor

noun as in person who sews clothing

verb as in make to fit; adjust

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It’s a way to get properly fitted clothing without a trip to the tailor, where social distancing is impossible, or having to try on clothes in crowded retail stores.

I worked with my stylists and friends Marni Senofonte and Deonte Nash to create a custom look with our tailor Arturo and his daughter Christina from Rancho Tailors.

The team of milliners, tailors and textile experts has been studiously sewing face coverings since the spring, so everyone working on the 300-acre property, whether they’re maintenance or Martha Washington, has masks made on-site.

Our next step is to combine cuts and folds, thereby becoming even better tailors.

It can identify and reproduce the “chemical fingerprints” of aged liquors, he said, or tailor tastes, colors and aromas to specific requirements.

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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.

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

The reason why these guys are so successful is because they have no egos, and specifically tailor the parts for the actor.

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

The tailor of the fairy tale with his "seven at a blow" is not in it with the gunnery Lieutenant of a battleship.

But she is greatly interested in certain shops that she is buying out, and especially in her visits to her tailor.

Is a Tailor, that can make a new Coat well, the worse Workman, because he can mend an old one?

Well, I am either a tailor or a cooper, and for the life of me I can't tell which: at any rate, I'm either one or the other.

Purt was gorgeous in a Canadian skating suitor so the tailor who sold it to him had called it.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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