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Tailor vs Tailored - What's the difference?

tailor | tailored |

As verbs the difference between tailor and tailored

is that tailor is to make, repair, or alter clothes while tailored is (tailor).

As a noun tailor

is a person who makes, repairs, or alters clothes professionally, especially suits and men's clothing.

As an adjective tailored is

adjusted by a tailor, fitted.

tailor

English

(wikipedia tailor)

Alternative forms

* tailour (obsolete)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A person who makes, repairs, or alters clothes professionally, especially suits and men's clothing.
  • (Australia) The fish .

    • Derived terms

    * tailorbird * tailoress * tailor-fashion * tailor-made * tailor's chalk * tailor's dummy

    Synonyms

    * (fish ) bluefish

    Related terms

    * dressmaker * seamster

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make, repair, or alter clothes.
  • To make or adapt (something) for a specific need.
  • To restrict (something) in order to meet a particular need
    • .

    References

    * Australian Fish and How to Catch Them , Richard Allan, Landsdowne Publishing, 1990, ISBN 1-86302-674-6.

    tailored

    English

    Adjective

    (head)
  • Adjusted by a tailor, fitted.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
    • , title=(The China Governess) , chapter=2 citation , passage=Now that she had rested and had fed from the luncheon tray Mrs. Broome had just removed, she had reverted to her normal gaiety.  She looked cool in a grey tailored cotton dress with a terracotta scarf and shoes and her hair a black silk helmet.}}
  • Made by a tailor.

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (tailor)

    • Anagrams

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