sb. [f. TAILOR sb. + -ESS.] A woman who works as a tailor; a woman tailor.

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1654.  Gayton, Pleas. Notes, IV. ix. 234. The Protean Tayloresse … could never be found in the same shape above once.

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1721.  Boston Gaz., 11 Nov., 3/1.

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1837.  Hawthorne, Twice-told T. (1851), II. i. 9. At one of the back windows I observed some pretty tailoresses, sewing, and chatting.

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1860.  Macm. Mag., II. 46. There are sweaters’ dens in London where living wages are utterly out of the reach of the poor tailoress.

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1891.  Times, 2 Nov., 5/3.

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  Hence Tailoress v., nonce-wd., intr. to follow the occupation of a tailoress.

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1865.  Mrs. Whitney, Gayworthys, xxiii. (1879), 231. It’s nice to get a glimpse of Eunice when she isn’t tailoressing.

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1888.  [see TAILORING vbl. sb.].

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