Crossword-Solution: TAILORDOM 9 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 12

The trade by which his father had made his money was as well known as that of the railway contractor; and every possible symbol of tailordom was displayed in graphic portraiture on the walls and hoardings of the city.

Preserve him from tailordom--from all contact with trade--they must; otherwise they would be perpetually linked to the horrid thing they hoped to outlive and bury.

Since such a man was banned by the world, which was to be despised? The clear result of Evan's solitary musing was to cast a sort of halo over Tailordom.

Probably Evan was already offended, or he held to Jack, as a comrade should, or else it was that Tailordom and the pride of his accepted humiliation bellowed in his ears, every fresh minute: 'Nothing assume!' I incline to think that the more ale he drank the fiercer rebel he grew against conventional ideas of rank, and those class-barriers which we scorn so vehemently when we find ourselves kicking at them.

Evan had now to reflect that he had just thrown away part of the price of his bondage to Tailordom; the mention of Rose filled his mind.