[f. TAILOR v. + -ING1.] The action or business of a tailor; the making of garments.
1662. Petty, Taxes, xv. Tracts (1769), 83. The value of wool, clothing, and tayloring, even to the thread and needles might be comprehended.
1831. Carlyle, Sart. Res., I. v. Neither in tailoring nor in legislating does man proceed by mere Accident.
1888. Queen, 7 April, 425. Tailoring for Ladies (and not Tailoressing) is carried on at Ulster House.
1899. Allbutt’s Syst. Med., VI. 704. Unable to follow her occupation of tailoring.
b. The production of the tailor; tailor’s work.
18[?]. Whittier, Pr. Wks. (1889), II. 239. Priests, stripped of their sacerdotal tailoring, were in his view but men, after all.
1899. Whiteing, 5 John St., xxiv. 246. In all the glory of the best tailoring in town.
c. attrib.
1850. Kingsley, Cheap Clothes, in Alt. Locke (1881), II. 101. The means of reducing prices in the tailoring trade.
1886. C. E. Pascoe, Lond. of To-day, xli. (ed. 3), 352. The most finished examples of the tailoring art.
