tailoring

noun — 2 senses

tailoring

noun
1

Work done by a tailor.

  • 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.1873, Grace Ramsay, A Salon in the Last Days of the Empire, and Other Sketches, London: Richard Bentley and Son, page 4:
2

Figuratively Any modification or ornamentation.

Derived terms
narrow tailoring

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