Bespoke is an adjective for anything commissioned to a particular specification. Custom-made, made to order, made to measure and sometimes hand-made are near-synonyms. Off-the-shelf and in clothing ready-to-wear are the opposites. Modding is a slang related term, mostly used to refer to personalization after manufacture. The word bespoke is derived from the verb to bespeak, to speak for something, in the specialised meaning to give order for it to be made or commission, first cited from 1583 by the OED, with the adjective in its alternative form bespoken first quoted from 1607 in this sense.[1] The term is generally more prevalent in British English than American English, which tends to use custom instead, as in custom car, custom motorcycle etc.
Posted on: Mon, 20 Oct 2014 16:04:35 +0000
Trending Topics
Recently Viewed Topics
© 2015