tailor-made
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- noun
- /ˈteɪlərˌmeɪd/
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a medida
- Recently, mask makers have begun making masks in tailor-made sizes depending on the market they are exporting to.
- a tailor-made suit
- a tailor-made shirt
Examples
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I'm a pretty dapper guy on the job, a Manhattan dandy in tailor-made suits.
Fiction book (1997) -
Now he wears $3000 tailor-made suits.
Blog text (3) -
I'm going now to pick up my new tailor-made First Contact uniform.
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Both offer you clothes; one is mass-produced, one is tailor-made. Both can be good or bad, and both have different characteristics.
Blog text (29) -
The baptized men wear beards, blue denim trousers, and suspenders, including either a homemade or tailor-made shirt purchased in a store.
Academic text (2004) -
The tailor showed me a range of fabrics to choose from for my tailor-made suit.
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She decided to invest in tailor-made clothing to ensure the best fit for her body shape.
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For his wedding, he wanted a tailor-made tuxedo that would be perfect for the occasion.
Antonyms
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Morphology
Etymology
Tailor-made comes from the job name tailor, a person who 'cuts' and sews cloth to make clothes that 'fit' one person, and made meaning created. So a tailor-made (a noun) is a piece of clothing made to fit a particular person exactly.