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tailor

/ˈteɪlɚ/ noun C1
  1. A person who makes, repairs, or alters clothes professionally, especially suits and men's clothing. · He works as a tailor on Swanston Street.

Plural tailors

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He was a man of twenty-five or six, and held a piece of cloth, which, being a tailor, he was about to make into a coat-lining.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 15 · C1
But it seems you have come back rich, my boy,” continued the tailor, looking askance at the handful of gold and silver which Dantès had thrown on the table.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 16 · C1
The tailor’s tab is on the neck—‘Neal, Outfitter, Vermissa, U.S.A.’ I have spent an instructive afternoon in the rector’s library, and have enlarged my knowledge by adding the fact that Vermissa is a flourishing little town at the head of one of the best known coal and iron valleys in the United States.
The Valley of Fear, p. 90 · C1
Singer and tailor am I-- Doubled the joys that I know-- Proud of my lilt to the sky, Proud of the house that I sew-- Over and under, so weave I my music--so weave I the house that I sew.
The Jungle Book, p. 85 · B2

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