Tailor, one whose occupation is to make clothes: Tp. II, 2, 55. Err. IV, 3, 7. Mids. I, 2, 60. Merch. III, 1, 30. As V, 4, 48. Shr. IV, 3, 59. Shr. IV, 3, 59 Shr. IV, 3, 59 Shr. IV, 3, 59 Shr. IV, 3, 59 Shr. IV, 3, 59 All's II, 5, 18. All's II, 5, 18 Tw. II, 4, 76. John IV, 2, 195. H4A II, 4, 273. H4B III, 2, 164 (a man's t.). 161 and 169 “(a woman's t.).” R3 I, 2, 257. H8 I, 3, 20. Cor. IV, 5, 235. Rom. I, 2, 40. III, 1, 30. Mcb. II, 3, 15. Lr. III, 2, 83. Oth. II, 3, 95. Ant. I, 2, 170. Cymb. II, 3, 84. IV, 2, 84. (to sing) “'tis the next way to turn t.” H4A III, 1, 264. “this secrecy of thine shall be a t. to thee and shall make thee a new doublet and hose,” Wiv. III, 3, 34. “a t. made thee,” Lr. II, 2, 60. Lr. II, 2, 60 63 (as the best thing about thee is thy clothes). “knowest me not by my clothes? No, nor thy t., who is thy grandfather: he made those clothes, which, as it seems, make thee,” Cymb. IV, 2, 81 (cf. “whose mother was her painting,” III, 4, 52). cf. the poor jest of Cloten, IV, 1, 4.
Peculiar use: “down topples she and 'tailor' cries,” Mids. II, 1, 54 (the custom of crying tailor at a sudden fall backwards, Johnson 'thinks he remembers' to have observed. Emendations proposed: rails or; tailsore).*
Shakespeare Lexicon. Alexander Schmidt. Berlin. Georg Reimer. 1902.
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