a person whose job is to make men’s clothes, especially somebody who makes suits, etc. for individual customers Topics Clothes and Fashionb2, Jobsb2(尤指为顾客个别定制男装的)裁缝 Word OriginMiddle English: from Anglo-Norman French taillour, literally ‘cutter’, based on late Latin taliare ‘to cut’. The verb dates from the mid 17th cent.