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Meaning of "tailor's dummy" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF TAILOR'S DUMMY

tailor's dummy  [ˈteɪləz ˈdʌmɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF TAILOR'S DUMMY

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adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Tailor's dummy is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES TAILOR'S DUMMY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

tailor's dummy

Dress form

A dress form is a three-dimensional model of the torso used for fitting clothing that is being designed or sewed. When making a piece of clothing, it can be put on the dress form so one can see the fit and drape of the garment as it would appear on a body, and make adjustments or alterations. Dress forms come in all sizes and shapes for almost every article of clothing that can be made. Dress forms in standard clothing sizes are used to make patterns, while adjustable dress forms allow garments to be tailored to fit a specific individual. This is often colloquially referred to as a Judy for the female form and a James for the male.

Definition of tailor's dummy in the English dictionary

The definition of tailor's dummy in the dictionary is a mannequin used to help tailor or fit clothes.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH TAILOR'S DUMMY


Brummie
ˈbrʌmɪ
chummy
ˈtʃʌmɪ
crumby
ˈkrʌmɪ
crummy
ˈkrʌmɪ
drummy
ˈdrʌmɪ
dummy
ˈdʌmɪ
gummy
ˈɡʌmɪ
lumme
ˈlʌmɪ
lummy
ˈlʌmɪ
mummy
ˈmʌmɪ
plummy
ˈplʌmɪ
pumie
ˈpʌmɪ
pumy
ˈpʌmɪ
rummy
ˈrʌmɪ
scrummy
ˈskrʌmɪ
scummy
ˈskʌmɪ
slummy
ˈslʌmɪ
thumby
ˈθʌmɪ
tummy
ˈtʌmɪ
yummy
ˈjʌmɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE TAILOR'S DUMMY

taille
tailless
taillessness
tailleur
taillie
tailor
tailor-made
tailor-make
tailor´s
tailor´s chalk
tailor´s-tack
tailorbird
tailored
tailoress
tailoring
tailpiece
tailpipe
tailplane
tailrace
tails

WORDS THAT END LIKE TAILOR'S DUMMY

alpha mummy
crash dummy
crash test dummy
Emmy
gin rummy
gippy tummy
Grammy
jimmy
mammy
mommy
sammy
spammy
stuffed dummy
tammy
thingummy
thrummy
tommy
ventriloquist´s dummy
whammy
yummy mummy

Synonyms and antonyms of tailor's dummy in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «tailor's dummy» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF TAILOR'S DUMMY

Find out the translation of tailor's dummy to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of tailor's dummy from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «tailor's dummy» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

裁缝的假人
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

maniquí de sastre
570 millions of speakers

English

tailor´s dummy
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

दर्जी की डमी
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

دمية خياط
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Манекен портновский
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

manequim de alfaiate
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

দরজির ডামি
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

Le mannequin de tailleur
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Dummy tailor
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Büste
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

テーラーのダミー
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

재단사의 더미
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Tukang jahit
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

giả thợ may
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

தையல்காரரின் போலி
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

टेलरची बनावट
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Terzinin kuklası
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

manichino del sarto
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Manekin krawiecki
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Манекен портновский
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

manechin croitorie
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ομοίωμα ράφτη
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

paspop
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

skräddaren dummy
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

skredder dummy
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of tailor's dummy

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «TAILOR'S DUMMY»

The term «tailor's dummy» is used very little and occupies the 177.211 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «TAILOR'S DUMMY» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about tailor's dummy

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TAILOR'S DUMMY»

Discover the use of tailor's dummy in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to tailor's dummy and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Tailor's Dummy
A well-known art dealer is dead, and a Jewish Harvard graduate gets a chance to redeem himself as a detective in the highly delicate case.
Irving Weinman, 1987
2
Pictorial Geographical Readers The British Isles
A TAILOR'S 'DUMMY' You all know what a Tailor's ' Dummy ' is. He is that very good little boy who ... except. to show off fine clothes. And yet he is of some 34 PIOTORIAL GEOGRAPHICAL READERS A Tame 'Dummy ' I A Tailor's ' Dummy.
Green Longmans
3
Unmasking Bruno Schulz
(1991: 132; italics mine) Undoubtedly, many readers will be tempted to interpret Jacob's preference for the tailor's dummy as an unequivocal plea for “antimimetic ” or abstract forms of art because the manekin could be considered an abstract ...
Dieter De Bruyn, Kris van Heuckelom, 2009
4
Histories of the Normal and the Abnormal: Social and ...
Though he was not the first to invent the tailor's dummy, he was the first to mass- produce it. This industrialised version of the tailor's dummy embodied a statistical mean, an average, and its invention is contemporary with the rise in demand for ...
Waltraud Ernst, 2005
5
Evolution Expects
tailor's dummy. He wanted to make the armour integral to the suit in this new, improved version. And having thoroughly field-tested his father's creation, he knew that he needed it to be more flexible. By embedding the armoured plates in  ...
Jonathan Green, 2009
6
Loot
Yes, a tailor's dummy provided with evidence of sex would fill the mind of the average magistrate with misgiving. Why is it wrapped ? HAL. We were taking it in the car. FAY. To a carnival. She's part of a display. TRUSCOTT. What part? FAY.
Joe Orton, 2014
7
Anglické obrazné fráze a idiomy - English as easy as ABC
DUMMY – like a tailor's dummy – jako panák, figurína, hastroš “Can you see that young man in the purple suit over there? He looks like a tailor's dummy.” Variation: to dress like a dandy. SANDBOY – as happy as a sandboy – velmi šťastný, ...
Gulland Daphne M., 2011
8
Orton Complete Plays: Entertaining Mr Sloane; Loot; What the ...
A curtained cubicle, outside the cubicle, a tailor's dummy dressed in the trousers, shirt, tie, shoes and hat belonging to BUCHANAN's uniform. A MAN in a brown overall takes the uniform coat which BUCHANAN hands through the curtains.
Joe Orton, 2014
9
The Culture of the Copy: Striking Likenesses, Unreasonable ...
Self-portraits. In one word. . . we wish to create man a second time, in the shape and semblance of a tailor's dummy. — Treatise on Tailors' Dummies or the Second Book ofGenesis, by Bruno Schulz's father Vanishing twins disclose our longing ...
Hillel Schwartz, 2013
10
Feydeau: Three Farces
Upstage left, not far from the door, a tailor's dummy with a woman's dress. Doors left and right midstage. Left and right downstage, dressmaker's benches on which are piled bits of material, fashion engravings, scissors, et cetera. Lefi, near the ...
Georges Feydeau, 2003

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TAILOR'S DUMMY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term tailor's dummy is used in the context of the following news items.
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Norma's Gaelic page turner hits the shelves
He goes off to college, where he excels at dressmaking, and as his story progresses his grip on reality gets looser and looser and his tailor's dummy becomes ... «Island News & Advertiser, Jul 15»
2
Kelly Osbourne announces new gig as a judge on Project Runway …
In her second clue she wrapped her arms around a tailor's dummy while the third showed the top of a running list for the show with the words 'Junior, Season 1 ... «Daily Mail, Jul 15»
3
Two decades on from Sophie Hook's tragic murder, the man who …
He thought her body was a tailor's dummy, but knew something was wrong because the dogs ran away from the scene. Mr Davies took off his T-shirt and laid it ... «Daily Post North Wales, Jul 15»
4
Birmingham skip body-find inquest opened
The BBC was told workers originally thought his body was a tailor's dummy, but then saw tattoos on the arms and called police. Mr O'Brien may have been dead ... «BBC News, May 15»
5
Body found at Armoury Road recycling site in Birmingham
Workers originally thought it was a tailor's dummy but then saw tattoos on the arms and realised it was a body and called police, the BBC has been told. The site ... «BBC News, Apr 15»
6
Recycling site shut after man's body discovered
Workers say they originally thought they had found a tailor's dummy but saw tattoos on the arms. It is thought that it was found near a conveyor belt where ... «ITV News, Apr 15»
7
Best-selling author William McIlvanney reckons Labour are 'dead in …
WILLIAM McIlvanney has branded the Labour Party “dead in the water”. And the best-selling author said their Scottish leader Jim Murphy was a “tailor's dummy”. «Scottish Daily Record, Feb 15»
8
Maison Martin Margiela Spring 2015 Couture
But that's exactly where Galliano concentrated his attention from the first look—a beige, textured tailor's dummy-like jacket worn by a towering girl in ... «Vogue.com, Jan 15»
9
The results of our 2015 predictions survey!
At our Slugger end of year review show, Brian Feeney described Gavin Robinson as a 'Tailor's Dummy'. That may be a bit unfair to Gavin, who had a very ... «Slugger O'Toole, Dec 14»
10
Workmen took dead body to DUMP after mistaking it for a mannequin
Workmen clearing an empty house thought a tailor's dummy hanging in the garage was a sick joke. So they cut it down and took it to the dump in their pick-up ... «Mirror.co.uk, Jul 14»

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