单词 | tailoress |
释义 | tailoress, n.|ˈteɪlərɪs| [f. tailor n. + -ess.] A woman who works as a tailor; a woman tailor.
1654Gayton Pleas. Notes iv. ix. 234 The Protean Tayloresse..could never be found in the same shape above once. 1771Boston Gaz. 11 Nov. 3/1. 1837 Hawthorne Twice-told T. (1851) II. i. 9 At one of the back windows I observed some pretty tailoresses, sewing, and chatting. 1860Macm. Mag. II. 46 There are sweaters' dens in London where living wages are utterly out of the reach of the poor tailoress. 1891Times 2 Nov. 5/3. Hence ˈtailoress v. intr. nonce-wd., to follow the occupation of a tailoress.
1865Mrs. Whitney Gayworthys xxiii. (1879) 231 It's nice to get a glimpse of Eunice when she isn't tailoressing. 1888[see tailoring vbl. n.]. |

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