tailors

Whilst Jekyll was examining a witness as to the number of tailors present at the alleged riot, Lord Eldon -- then Chief Justice of the Common Pleas -- reminded him that three persons can make that which the law regards as a riot; whereupon the witty advocate answered, "Yes, my lord, Hale and Hawkins lay down the law as your lordship states it, and I rely on their authority; for if there must be three men to make a riot, the rioters being _tailors_, there must be nine times three present, and unless the prosecutor make out that there were twenty-seven joining in this breach of the peace, my clients are entitled to an acquittal."

A Book About Lawyers John Cordy Jeaffreson 1866

This is the "wet pressing" used by tailors, which is adapted to the requirements of materials used by them, such as serge, tweeds, etc.

Textiles and Clothing Kate Heintz Watson

Their clothes are copied from the English, though they will claim in the same breath that their tailors are the best in the world.

As A Chinaman Saw Us Passages from his Letters to a Friend at Home Anonymous

In Baltimore the tailors were the first to organize, and they conducted in 1795 one of the first strikes in

The Armies of Labor A chronicle of the organized wage-earners Samuel Peter Orth 1897

The best kind are called tailors, and have a good deal of the mackerel flavour; and snappers, which somewhat resemble cod-fish.

The Bushman — Life in a New Country Edward Wilson Landor 1844

Sir Willmott Burrell bustled and chafed, and gave orders to his serving-men, and to those now called tailors; visited the neighbouring gentry, but spoke not of his approaching marriage, which he preferred should take place as silently as might be.

The Buccaneer A Tale S. C. Hall 1840

But here in Udaipur, the tailors are a swarm of bees hounding me within 100 feet of the door.

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The girls I was teaching were being trained to be "tailors" in a town of dozens of unoccupied tailors: learning how to sew without sewing machines and with paper instead of cloth.

Karin Badt: Child Soldiers on Film: "Kassim the Dream" (I) 2009

You get clusters of certain types of shops in the UK, such as tailors and jewellery shops, though it does depend on the town and how old/modern the place is.

Hanging out with the Anthro Guy Michael Turton 2006

As to the trade of country towns, there were many more actual makers of things than now, such as tailors and bootmakers, patten makers, maltsters; and there were several academies, as the schools for the middle class were called.

Fragments of Two Centuries Glimpses of Country Life when George III. was King Alfred Kingston