Tailor vs. Taylor

Tailornoun

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

‘He works as a tailor on Swanston Street.’;

Taylornoun

obsolete form of tailor

Tailornoun

(Australia) The fish Pomatomus saltatrix.

Taylornoun

United States composer and music critic (1885-1966)

Tailorverb

(ambitransitive) To make, repair, or alter clothes.

‘We can tailor that jacket for you if you like.’;

Taylornoun

United States film actress (born in England) who was a childhood star; as an adult she often co-starred with Richard Burton (born in 1932)

Tailorverb

(transitive) To make or adapt (something) for a specific need.

‘The website was tailored to the client's needs.’;

Taylornoun

12th President of the United States; died in office (1784-1850)

Tailorverb

(transitive) To restrict (something) in order to meet a particular need.

‘a narrowly tailored law’;

Tailornoun

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.’;

Tailornoun

The mattowacca; - called also tailor herring.

Tailornoun

The goldfish.

Tailorverb

To practice making men's clothes; to follow the business of a tailor.

‘These tailoring artists for our laysInvent cramped rules.’;

Tailornoun

a person whose occupation is making and altering garments

Tailorverb

make fit for a specific purpose

Tailorverb

style and tailor in a certain fashion;

‘cut a dress’;

Tailorverb

create (clothes) with cloth;

‘Can the seamstress sew me a suit by next week?’;

Tailornoun

a person whose occupation is making fitted clothes such as suits, trousers, and jackets to fit individual customers.

Tailornoun

another term for bluefish

Tailorverb

(of a tailor) make (clothes) to fit individual customers

‘he was wearing a sports coat which had obviously been tailored in London’;

Tailorverb

make or adapt for a particular purpose or person

‘arrangements can be tailored to meet individual requirements’;

Tailor

A tailor is a person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing professionally, especially suits and men's clothing. Although the term dates to the thirteenth century, tailor took on its modern sense in the late eighteenth century, and now properly refers to makers of men's and women's suits, coats, trousers, and similar garments, commonly of wool, linen, or silk.