tailor
noun/ˈteɪlə(r)/
/ˈteɪlər/
- a person whose job is to make men’s clothes, especially somebody who makes suits, etc. for individual customersTopics Clothes and Fashionb2, Jobsb2Word OriginMiddle English: from Anglo-Norman French taillour, literally ‘cutter’, based on late Latin taliare ‘to cut’. The verb dates from the mid 17th cent.
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