tailorizev.
1. intransitive. To do tailor's work, to act the tailor; to sit cross-legged like a tailor.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > tailoring or making clothes > tailor or make clothes [verb (intransitive)] > do a tailor's work
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the world > space > relative position > posture > action or fact of sitting > be sitting or seated [verb (intransitive)] > with legs crossed
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1829 W. Scott Let. 24 Aug. (1936) XI. 229 Here am I tayloreising as my good mother would have said, that is caping collaring [etc.].
1873 C. G. Leland Egyptian Sketch-bk. 228 On the bunk where they all seem to be tailorising on their cross legs all day.
2. transitive. To treat as a tailor; to reduce to tailorhood.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > tailoring or making clothes > tailor or make clothes [verb (transitive)] > treat as a tailor
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1832 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 31 469 Did not Lord Melbourne—for we have not heard that he had been tailorized into humble submission—did he not kick him?
1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus i. viii. 20/2 Our Clothes-thatch, and how..it tailorises and demoralises us.
Derivatives
tailoriˈzation n. acting as a tailor, tailoring.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > tailoring or making clothes > [noun]
tailoring1662
louse-pricking1710
tailorization1853
1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. xl. 365 We have worn out all our flimsy wardrobes, and have of late resorted to domestic tailorization.
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