tailoring

tailoring

1. present participle and gerund of tailor

tailoring (countable and uncountable, plural tailorings)

1. Work done by a tailor.
   • 1873, Grace Ramsay, A Salon in the Last Days of the Empire, and Other Sketches‎, London: Richard Bentley and Son, page 4:

     A man got up in all the outward trappings of a gentleman: an extensive display of snowy linen, unimpeachable tailoring, ganté, botté, in perfection; nothing overdone.

2. (figuratively) Any modification or ornamentation.

• gratiolin, largition