tailorism

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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noun

Uncountable

"[I]n the niches, instead of the effigies of mailed warriors, stood stuffed-out dresses, such as are worn by the fashionables of the day. […] It was a masterpiece of incongruity — blending in its forms Gothic romance with modern tailorism; […]"
"The Yiddish Theatre had just begun to extricate itself from the claws of tailorism. Only since 1914 has there been a Yiddish daily not permeated by the spirit of tailorism, The Day."

From tailor + -ism.

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