[See -DOM.]

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  1.  The state, condition, or fact of being a tailor; humorously, the domain or realm of tailors.

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1861.  G. Meredith, E. Harrington, I. iii. 32. Preserve him from tailordom—from all contact with trade—they must.

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1873.  W. Mayo, Never Again, iv. 43. With a punctuality unusual in tailordom the clothes were finished.

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1901.  Blackw. Mag., Jan., 44/1. They do for literary art what M. Planché’s books … have done for tailordom.

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  2.  = TAILORING vbl. sb. b, TAILORY 3.

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1895.  Rashdall, Univ. Europe Mid. Ages, II. 644. The sobriety of hue characteristic of modern clerical tailordom.

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