Tailor
Tailor , noun
[Old French tailleor, French tailleur, from Old French taillier, French tailler to cut, from Latin talea a rod, stick, a cutting, layer for planting. Compare Detail, Entail, Retail, Tally, n.]
1.
One whose occupation is to cut out and make men's garments; also, one who cuts out and makes ladies' outer garments.
Well said, good woman's tailor... I would thou wert a man's tailor.
2.
(a) (Zoology) The mattowacca; -- called also tailor herring.
(b)
(Zoology) The silversides.
3.
(Zoology) The goldfish. [Provincial English]
Collocations (2)
Salt-water tailor (Zoology) , the bluefish. [Local, United States] — Bartlett
Tailor bird (Zoology) , any one of numerous species of small Asiatic and East Indian singing birds belonging to Orthotomus, Prinia, and allied genera. They are noted for the skill with which they sew leaves together to form nests. The common Indian species are Orthotomus longicauda, which has the back, scapulars, and upper tail coverts yellowish green, and the under parts white; and the golden-headed tailor bird (Orthotomus coronatus), which has the top of the head golden yellow and the back and wings pale olive-green.
Tailor , intransitive verb
To practice making men's clothes; to follow the business of a tailor.
These tailoring artists for our lays
Invent cramped rules.