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- noun Obsolete form of
tailor .
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Examples
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So he went into the square seate, and sate down like a tailour and sang with a strong voyce or hallowing.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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In spite of all the aristocratic ideas with which they are still imbued, many of those audacious members who clamour for reforms and oppose the king are very inconsiderable people, and such men are seen taking their seats at Westminster as "Walterus l'espicer," "Paganus le tailour,"
A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand
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So he went into the square seate, and sate down like a tailour and sang with a strong voyce or hallowing.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 03 Richard Hakluyt 1584
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Noel’s Bar and Julepunsch, by Joge, if you’ve tippertaps in your head or starting kursses, tailour, you’re silenced at Henge Ceol - leges, Exmooth, Ostbys for ost, boys, each and one?
Finnegans Wake 2006
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a tailour in Craven Street, one Heddington, an acquaintance of James M'Pherson, to whom I owe some shillings, I believe under ten, certainly under twenty; pay him what I owe.
Life of Adam Smith Rae, John, 1845-1915 1895
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