Also 5 talarie, tailloury, 6 (9) tailery, 7 taylorie, -ery. [f. TAILOR sb. + -Y: cf. -ORY.]
1. The art, craft, or occupation of a tailor.
c. 1449. Pecock, Repr., I. x. 49. Euen as sadelarie and talarie been ij dyuerse facultees and kunnyngis.
1598. R. Haydocke, trans. Lomazzo, I. 1. The art of Weaving and Tailery.
1639. in T. Lechford’s Note-Bk. (1885), 91. Co-partners in the trade of Taylery.
1823. in Spirit Pub. Jrnls., 151. A student in tailory, or ‘a tailor’s apprentice,’ as the ancients used to say.
2. A tailor’s workshop or establishment.
1480. Wardr. Acc. Edw. IV. (1830), 146. Coleyn threde delivered into the Tailloury.
1897. J. W. Clark, Observ. Priory Barnwell, p. lxxiv. The Chamberlain is to … sco that they [garments] are properly made in the tailery (sartrinum).
3. Tailors’ work, tailors’ wares; costumery.
1610. Guillim, Heraldry, IV. vii. (1611), 205. Heereto we will annex some few examples of Taylorie.
1854. Thackeray, Leech’s Pictures, Wks. 1900, XIII. 489. Mr. Leech has as fine eye for tailory and millinery as for horse-flesh.
1891. Pall Mall Gaz., 11 July, 2/2. How much time the Kaiser has to spend in the various changes from uniform to uniform…. An eighth of his Majesty’s time consumed in tailory!! Sartor resartus, indeed!
4. attrib.
1901. Westm. Gaz., 9 May, 3/1. What we call the tailory hat. Ibid. (1906), 8 Sept., 13/1. The little interregnum till the tailory clothes are ready.
