tailoring

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tailoring

  1. present participle and gerund of tailor

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tailoring (countable and uncountable, plural tailorings)

  1. Work done by a tailor.
    • 1873, Grace Ramsay, A Salon in the Last Days of the Empire, and Other Sketches, London: Richard Bentley and Son, page 4:
      A man got up in all the outward trappings of a gentleman: an extensive display of snowy linen, unimpeachable tailoring, ganté, botté, in perfection; nothing overdone.
  2. (figuratively) Any modification or ornamentation.

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