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Tailȝo(u)r, n. Also: tailȝio(u)r, -ȝour, -ȝeo(u)r(e, -ȝeourre, -ȝe(a)r, -ȝier, -ȝeur, -ȝhour, -yo(u)r(e, -yiour(e, -yior, -yeo(u)r(e, -yowr, -year, -yier, -yeir, -yeur, -ȝivour, -ȝoir, (tailya), taileȝour, taileour, tailieour, tailiour(e, tailo(u)r, -eur, taillȝour, -yieor, -yer, -yor, -iour, -eour, -er, -eur, -our(e, -ur, taylȝeo(u)r, -yo(u)r, -yeor, -eo(u)r, -o(u)r(e, -eur, tayllyour, -yeor, -yieor, -eyour, -ower, -ur, tayillyeor, talȝour, -ȝior, -ȝeour(e, -ȝeor, -ȝear, -ȝier, taly(e)our, -yer, -yhour, taliour, -ior, -iyour, -our, talliour, taelyeour, telȝeo(u)r, -ȝo(u)r, telyeour, -yer, -teilȝeour, teylȝeour, tealȝ(e)our, tealyeor(e, teailȝeo(u)r, tyl(i)or, tyl(l)er, thaloyre, taiȝour, taȝleour. [ME and e.m.E. taylur (1296), taylor (1318-19), taillyour (1415), tayleȝour (c1425), taylyour (1483), taileyour (c1500), tailour (1573-80), OF tailleor, -eur, med. L. tāliātor.] A tailor. Also in reference to the cutter as well as the sewer.In the earliest examples freq. as a personal name. 12… Liber Scon 57.
Symoni Taillur
c1220 Liber Dryburgh 74.
Terram Reginaldi Tayllur
1337 Rot. Sc. 491/2.
Henr' le Taillour
1374 Rot. Sc. 962/2.
Willelmus dictus Taylleyourson burgensis de Drumfres
1382 Exch. R. III 96.
Duncano Talyhour
1387 Exch. R. III 147.
Talour
1389 Exch. R. III 206.
Taillour
1418 Exch. R. IV 304.
Gilbertum Tailȝour
1446 Exch. R. V 220.
Duncano Tailyeoure pro … factura pannorum regis
1446 Exch. R. V 221.
Tailyeour
1448 Exch. R. V 299.
Tailioure
1454 Exch. R. V 621.
Talyour
(a) 1424 Grey Friars 167.
Johan Williemson, tayloure
c1500-c1512 Dunb. (OUP) 167/29 (M).
Tailȝour
1540 Lynd. Sat. 1288 heading (Ch.).
Taylour
a1633 Hope Major Pract. II 105.
Taylyor
1637 Rec. Old Aberd. II 11.
The deacons of the hammermen and taylȝeors in name of the rest of thair crofts
1652 Sc. Ant. III 19.
To the merchand for a harn gown 2 lib. 8 sh. to the tayllyour for making it 13 sh. 4 d.
1656 Dumbarton B. Rec. 72.
Tayleurs
1676 Grant Chart. 356.
Tayleor
1681 Edinb. B. Rec. XI 17.
Taylyeors
1682 Melrose Reg. Rec. III 22.
Tayllyeor
1683 Melrose Reg. Rec. III 58.
Tayllyieor
1690 Kirkcudbr. Sheriff Ct. Deeds II 407.
Tayllower
1696 Stitchill Baron Ct. 123.
Taylȝeour
(b) 14.. Acts I 336/2.
Off the tailȝeouris chalance … that thai mak our mekil refus and schredis of mennis claith
1436–7 Ayr B. Ct. p. 54 (28 Jan.).
Tailȝhour
1456 Hay I 208/10.
A soutare, or a skynnare, or a tailloure
1474 Treas. Acc. I 24.
To a tailȝour that makis the kingis hos, … iiij li. xiiij s. vj d.
1498 Halyb. 158.
Taillȝour
c1500 Rowll Cursing 235 (M).
Na tailȝour … Can counterfit nor mak it meit Ane gabert for ane dewill compleit
c1500-c1512 Dunb. (OUP) 155/145 (B).
Tailȝeor
c1500-c1512 Dunb. (OUP) 167/26 (B).
Tailȝor
c1500-c1512 Dunb. (OUP) 202/36 (STS).
Tailyouris
1516 Edinb. Hammermen 92.
Tailȝour
1530–1 Treas. Acc. V 429.
To Malcolme, tailȝour, for the making of the saidis gownis xxxviij s.
1536 Antiq. Aberd. & B. III 469.
Tailyoure
1548 Treas. Acc. IX 175.
For thre men, tailȝeourres, handling and dressing of the tapesre
1549 Edinb. Hammermen 181b.
Giffin to the tailȝiouris that helpit to waill the taffettis schoipe thame
1552 Treas. Acc. X 69.
Tailȝeoure
1556 Carte Northberwic 74.
Tailȝoir
1560 Cal. Sc. P. I 559 (see Marchand n. 1 d (1)).
Tailleour
1569 Crim. Trials I ii 8.
Tailliour
1571 St. A. Kirk S. 354.
Tailyowr
1569-73 Bann. Memor. 219.
Tailyeore
1569-73 Bann. Memor. 219.
Tailȝeore
1573 Sempill in Sat. P. xxxix 202.
Thay socht na taileȝours for to busc thair breikis
c1575 Balfour Pract. 576.
Quha may be chargit to compeir in the Chalmerlane air … baxteris, brousteris … tavernaris of wine … tailȝeuris, and all uther craftismen
1581 Hamilton Cath. Tr. in Cath. Tr. (STS) 83/12.
Tailyeurs
1585 Inverness Rec. I 299.
Tailyear
1587 Reg. Dunferm. 485.
Tailyors
1587 Melville Chart. 131.
Tailieour
1588 Sc. Ant. VII 77.
Tailya
1628 Dumbarton B. Rec. 29.
Tailyeir
1630 S. Leith Rec. 20/1.
Tailȝears
1631 Reg. Great S. 601/1.
Tailyiouris
1637 Banff Ann. I 80.
The … judges ordanis the pryce of tailyeouris wark … to be for the maister daylie 2 s. and for his man being past ane yeir of his prentieschip daylie 16 d. with thair meit
1638 Fugitive Poetry II x 4/13.
Taileour
1647 Edinb. Test. LXIII 67.
Taillyer
1660 Ure Rutherglen 65.
Tailȝivours are not to exceid fowrtie pennyes and ther dyet, for a dayes worke
a1663 Pappity Stampoy 52.
The tailours wife is worst clad
1665–7 Lauder Jrnl. 39.
Tailleurs
1667 M. P. Brown Suppl. Decis. II 443.
Tailyier
1667 Kirkcudbr. Test. (Reg. H.) 10 March.
Tailȝer
1680 Kirkintilloch B. Ct. 108.
Tailyore
1681 Bk. Old Edinb. C. VIII 114.
Tailȝier
1682 Melrose Reg. Rec. III 24.
Taillyieor
1683 Kirkcudbr. B. Rec. MS 14 March.
Taileur
1684 Bk. Old Edinb. C. IX 159.
Tailȝior
1688 New Mills Manuf. 185.
Tailiour
1696 Conv. Burghs IV 215.
Taillyor
(c) 1427–8 Acts II 15/2.
Wrychtis, smythis, talȝeouris, webstaris & all vthiris elik generally
1442 Aberd. B. Rec. I 9.
Talȝoures
1535 Treas. Acc. VI 246.
Deliverit to Thomas Ahannay, talȝear, to be the kingis grace ane galcoit
1547 Treas. Acc. IX 113.
Talȝeoure
1561 Treas. Acc. XI 84.
Talliour
1584 Sempill in Sat. P. xlv 567.
His blew clock beand worne so bair, He causit an talyeour turne it and mak it Into wich maill
1588 Irons Leith II 8.
Talȝier
1589–1600 Skipper's Acc. (Morton) 65b.
James the talyer ine Edinbroycht
1665 Rothesay B. Rec. 95.
Talior
1668 Lauder Jrnl. 192.
Talȝeor
1672 Corshill Baron Ct. 104.
Taliyour
1688 New Mills Manuf. 185.
The taliours recept
(d) c1500-c1512 Dunb. (OUP) 154/124.
A turnament … Betuix a telȝour and ane sowtar
c1500-c1512 Dunb. (OUP) 159/30 (B).
Thocht a man haif a brokin bak, Haif he a gude crafty telȝour, quhattrak, That can it cuver with craftis slie
c1500-c1512 Dunb. (OUP) 155/149.
Telȝoris
1540 Lynd. Sat. 4118 (B).
I leird … telȝeouris in every toun, To schaip fyve quarteris fra a goun
1561 Digest Justiciary Proc. D 11.
Tealȝour
a1568 Bann. MS 140a/9.
Fy on the telȝour that nevir wes trew Fra claith weill can thow clyth ane clowt
1569-73 Bann. Memor. 220.
Tealyeore
1570-3 Bann. Trans. 317.
Tealyeor
1573–4 Mill Mediæv. Plays 162.
Cordinars, vobstars, telyers and baxteris
1593 Aberd. Council Lett. I 54.
Telyeour
1596 Wedderb. Compt Bk. 31.
Teylȝeour
1598–9 Perth Tailors 16 Feb.
Teailȝeor
1602 Inverness Rec. II 2.
Teilȝeour
1636 Sutherland Bk. II 168.
Tealȝeour
1637 Irons Leith II 426.
The teailȝeours fore leach … seat in the church
1656 J. L. Hilson Border "Burrow" of Barony 5.
Telȝeors
(e) 1525 Wigtown B. Ct. 211b.
Jhone Hannaye thaloyre to Jame Mvrdoch vyf
(f) 1610 Bk. Old Edinb. C. XIV 43.
Tylior
1672 Kirkcudbr. Test. (Kirkcudbr. Sheriff Ct.).
John Robsone tylor and burges of Kirkcudbright
1687 S. Leith Rec. 155/1.
Tyler
1693 Glasg. Univ. Mun. III 584.
Thomas Pollock tylor for a black velvet pileus
(g) 1621 Edinb. B. Rec. VI 222.
The deacone and bretherane of the taelyeours of this burgh
(h) 1678 Kirkcudbr. B. Rec. MS 6 Feb.
Taȝleour
(i) 1683 Melrose Reg. Rec. III 58.
Tayillyeor

b. attrib. With craft, tread, work; buith; burd, threid; boy, lad.Also in place-names. 1508 Reg. Great S. 692/1.
Le laruche de le Tailȝourcroft
1560 Reg. Privy S. V i 182/2.
Lawruch de lie Tailȝeoure Croft
(1) 1500 Edinb. B. Rec. I 82.
The masteris of the talȝour craft
1531 Edinb. B. Rec. II 52.
The maisterys of the tailyeor craft … present till ws thair supplicatioun
1546 Soc. Ant. Chart. (Reg. H.) No. 41.
Thomas Alansoun dekyn and kirkmaister of the tailȝeour craft
1598 Perth Kirk S. in Spottiswoode Misc. II 277.
To give the said John £10 [Scots] to learn him the tailor craft
1646 Irvine Mun. II 64. a1675 Kirkcudbr. Sheriff Ct. Deeds I 499.
[Indenture … of Robert, … as apprentice … to learn the] tyller tread [for a year and a half]
1696 Conv. Burghs IV 215.
The tailler trade
1660 Melrose Reg. Rec. I 318.
For taylor worke wrocht … to him
1672 Melrose Reg. Rec. II 290.
6 dayes tailyior work
(2) c1521 Old Dundee II 335.
John Stewart, talȝour, grantit that he set to Walter Cer ane sufficient talȝour buith, and Walter protestit, gif the buith be nocht halden sufficient without impediment of reik of the nether houses, that [etc.]
1610 Brechin Test. II 68.
The said vmquhill Johne had … bot certane plenissing within his taiȝour buthe
1658 Brechin Test. VI 150.
The … plenishing of his … talyeour booth or chope
(3) 1531 Edinb. B. Rec. II 52.
Ilk prentis till pay at his entry to the reparationis … or ony prentis be sett apoun the tailyeour burd, ten shillingis
1589 St. A. B. Ct. 4 Nov.
To … delyver to Thomas Monipennye tailȝeour ane (? tailȝeour) buird of fir off sevin quarteris of lenth and sex quarteris of breid
1607 Edinb. Test. XLII 326b.
Tua tailȝeour buirdis pryce of baythe v li.
1654 Edinb. Test. LXVIII 41b.
Ane tailȝeour burd worth 1 lib.
1617 M. Works Acc. (ed.) II 89.
For tailyeour threid and neidles xviii s.
(4) 1571 Misc. Bann. C. III 141.
To Alexander, the taylyour boy, v s.
1642 Sc. N. & Q. XII 60.
Given to an talȝior boy callit James Fyfe from Irland 30 s.
1665 Reg. Privy C. 3 Ser. II 13.
Thomas Hepburn, tayleour boy
1680 Foulis Acc. Bk. 40.
To the tailyeour lad drink money for my black cloaths 13 s. 4 d.
1691 Cramond Kirk S. III 5 Feb.
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