tailoring

English

Verb

tailoring

1. present participle and gerund of tailor

Noun

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.

Derived terms

• narrow tailoring

Translations

work of a tailor

German: Schneiderei (de) f Malayalam: തയ്യൽ (ml) (tayyal) Polish: krawiectwo (pl) n Spanish: confección (es) Yiddish: שנײַדערײַ n (shnayderay)

Anagrams

• gratiolin, largition