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custom
ADJECTIVE:

1. made specially for individual customers: 
custom shoes.

2. dealing in things so made, or doing work to order: 
a custom tailor.

3. made to the specifications of an individual customer (often in the combinations "custom-built," "custom-made").

4. specializing in goods so made.

5. made or performed according to personal order.

6. specializing in custom work or operation: 
a custom tailor.

Origin:

1150–1200; Middle English custume<Anglo-French; Old French costume<Vulgar Latin *co(n)s(uē)tūmin-, replacing Latin consuētūdin- (stem of consuētūdō), equivalent to consuēt(us) accustomed, past participle of consuēscere (con-con- + suē- (akin to suus one's own) + -tus past participle suffix) + -ūdin- noun suffix; cf. costume. Dictionary 2: C12: from Old French costume, from Latin consuētūdō, from consuēscere to grow accustomed to, from suēscere to be used to. —Dictionary.com. // 

First Known Use of custom: Noun: 13th century. Adjective: 1757. History and Etymology for custom: Noun and Adjective: Middle English custume, from Anglo-French, from Latin consuetudin-, consuetudo, from consuescere to accustom, from com- + suescere to accustom; akin to suus one's own — more at suicide. —Merriam-Webster.

Sources: 1, 2, 3.

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