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bespoke

[bih-spohk]

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verb

a simple past tense and past participle of bespeak.

adjective

British.

(of clothes) made to individual order; custom-made: a bespoke jacket.

making or selling such clothes: a bespoke tailor.

Older Use. engaged to be married; spoken for.

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Origin:
1745–55 for def. 2

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Education moved from a bespoke craft to a more industrial approach.

The dealers have long argued that bespoke swaps do not belong on bourses.

Those looking for the production of excellent, colourful bespoke artwork might consider contacting her.

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Education moved from a bespoke craft to a more industrial approach.

The dealers have long argued that bespoke swaps do not belong on bourses.

Those looking for the production of excellent, colourful bespoke artwork might consider contacting her.

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Help to get welfare recipients into work is to become bespoke.

Disney has created a bespoke experience for each audience.

Fine horses bespoke the nobility the party was supposed to despise.

Even with modifications, the phones will still be far cheaper than bespoke devices.

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Smart investors preferred to make bearish bets via more bespoke instruments.

Dell's innovation was a business model that used extreme supply-chain efficiency to create bespoke computers.

It is also dominated by highly specialised companies-many of them small-that produce bespoke goods for individual customers.

Moreover digital also offers the studios the opportunity to offer bespoke content tailored to customer requests.

The bespoke diet and product regimen he concocts for clients looking for their inner glow is both addictive and expensive.

Bespoke reprinted features or sections for conferences and marketing.

The body language of both bespoke the tension and uncertainty of the moment and also contained a promise of resolution.

But the letters bespoke an intimate correspondence, which made me think:.

Not that you need a bespoke tailor to pull off the look.

Joe--you¿ve finally met your match, and he¿s five inches of solid plastic in a beige pullover and bespoke slacks.

Today, micro-factories make everything from cars to bike components to bespoke furniture in any design you can imagine.

By the next century the town turned to manufacturing bespoke and high-end shoes.

As a candidate, he toned down his antics and donned bespoke suits.

In that dream of suburban paradise such tints bespoke monarchy, even suggested the corridors of heaven.

The gains include less waste and the ability to make bespoke parts more easily.

His elastic-band body bespoke discipline, even asceticism.

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Dictionary.com Unabridged

verb (used with object), -spoke or (Archaic

) -spake; -spo·ken or -spoke; -speak·ing.

to ask for in advance: to bespeak the reader's patience.

to reserve beforehand; engage in advance; make arrangements for: to bespeak a seat in a theater.

Literary. to speak to; address.

to show; indicate: This bespeaks a kindly heart.

Obsolete. to foretell; forebode.

Origin:
before 900; Middle English bespeken, Old English besprecan. See be-, speak

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bespoke (bɪˈspəʊk)

—*adj*
1.	(esp of clothing or a website, computer program, etc) made to the customer's specifications
2.	making or selling such clothing, websites, etc: a bespoke tailor; a bespoke web designer

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Word Origin & History

bespoke

"custom or custom-made, made to order," of goods, as distinguished from ready-made, 1755, earlier bespoken (c.1600), pp. of bespeak, in a sense of "to speak for, to arrange beforehand," a sense attested in bespeak from 1580s. Now usually of tailored suits.

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bespeak

O.E. besprecan "speak about, speak against, complain," from be- + 'sprecan "to speak" (see speak). A common Germanic compound (cf. O.S. bisprecan, Du. bespreken, O.H.G. bisprehhan, Ger. besprechen); originally "to call out," it evolved a wide

range of meaning in English, including "speak up," "oppose," "request," "discuss, "arrange," and "to order (goods)" (1580s).

"The connection of the senses is very loose; some of them appear to have arisen quite independently of each other from different applications of BE- pref." [OED]

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