retailored
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Just fifteen when she began filming “Oz,” Pellegrini made garrulous public appearances well into her eighties, usually wearing a flower-pot hat and retailored versions of her original Munchkin duds.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 11, 2018
In 2015, the company partnered with Re/Done, a business that bought vintage Levi's products, retailored them, relabeled them and sold them online at prices that could be as high as $300.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 2018
In previous shows this Korean-American writer has devised a comic revue about black identity politics, retailored Shakespeare’s “King Lear” and taken to the stage herself to perform a cabaret act mostly about death.
From New York Times ● Jan. 16, 2012
Unsurprisingly, Britt, the playboy son of crusading Daily Sentinel publisher James Reid, has been retailored as a wide-eyed slacker to fit the Rogen persona.
From Reuters ● Jan. 12, 2011
A revulsion of taste flowed over Lilly; she hated suddenly the rather tawdry cape piped in red, and mentally retailored herself with a new feeling for simplicity.
From Star-Dust by Hurst, Fannie
