sartorial [sahr-tawr -ee-uh l, -tohr -] adjective of or relating to tailors or their trade: sartorial workmanship.
of or relating to clothing or style or manner of dress: sartorial splendor.
Origin of sartorial 1815–25; <
Late Latin sartor tailor +
-ial Related forms sar·to·ri·al·ly , adverb pre·sar·to·ri·al , adjective un·sar·to·ri·al , adjective un·sar·to·ri·al·ly , adverb Dictionary.com Unabridged
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Examples from the Web for sartorial Contemporary Examples of sartorial Today, the sartorial movement is starting to make a comeback.
Once she became enmeshed in the acting world, she turned to some timeless Hollywood icons for sartorial guidance.
The sartorial culture clash is a foreshadowing: mama slaps Louis and kicks him out of the house.
As far as sartorial social cues go, the platform shoe is not highly ranked.
But Cain wrapped himself in every sartorial cliché about authority, pecking order, and religiosity.
Historical Examples of sartorial But it was not of sartorial magnificence that he was thinking.
Sir Christopher, even a cat, believed firmly in sartorial pulchritude.
Reginald has a magnificent scorn for details, other than sartorial .
And Mary, steely polite, enumerated my sartorial shortcomings.
And here Sadler turned abruptly from art, and plunged into sartorial details.
British Dictionary definitions for sartorial adjective of or relating to a tailor or to tailoring
anatomy of or relating to the sartorius
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Derived Forms sartorially , adverb Word Origin for sartorial C19: from Late Latin sartōrius from sartor
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Word Origin and History for sartorial adj. "pertaining to a tailor," 1807, from Modern Latin sartorius , from Late Latin sartor "tailor" (cf. French sartre "tailor"), literally "patcher, mender," from Latin sart- , past participle stem of sarcire "to patch, mend," from PIE root *serk- "to make whole." Earlier in English in same sense was Related: sartorian (1660s). Sartorius as the name of the long leg muscle is because it is used in crossing the legs to bring them into the position needed to sit like a tailor. Related: Sartorially .
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