ˈtailorize, v.
[See -ize.]
a. trans. To treat as a tailor; to reduce to tailorhood. b. intr. To do tailor's work, to act the tailor; to sit cross-legged like a tailor.
| 1829 Scott Let. to Mrs. Hughes 24 Aug., Here I am tailorizing as my good mother would have said, that is capeing, collaring [etc.]. 1831 Carlyle Sart. Res. i. viii, Our Clothes-thatch, and how..it tailorises and demoralises us. 1832 Blackw. Mag. XXXI. 469 Did not Lord Melbourne—for we have not heard that he had been tailorized into humble submission—did he not kick him? 1873 Leland Egypt. Sketch-Bk. 228 On the bunk where they all seem to be tailorising on their cross legs all day. |
Hence tailoriˈzation, acting as a tailor, tailoring.
| 1853 Kane Grinnell Exp. xl. (1856) 365 We have worn out all our flimsy wardrobes, and have of late resorted to domestic tailorization. |