tailor

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
tailor/ˈteɪlə(r)/

▶noun a person whose occupation is making clothes such as suits for individual customers. ▶verb

• 1 (of a tailor) make (clothes) to fit individual customers.

• 2 (usu. tailor something for/to) make or adapt for a particular purpose or person.

– derivatives
tailoring noun.

– origin ME: from Anglo-Norman Fr. taillour, lit. ‘cutter’, based on late L. taliare ‘to cut’.