sartorial
[sahr-tawr-ee-uh l, -tohr-]
- of or relating to tailors or their trade: sartorial workmanship.
- of or relating to clothing or style or manner of dress: sartorial splendor.
- Anatomy. pertaining to the sartorius.
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Origin of sartorial
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Contemporary Examples
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
But it was not of sartorial magnificence that he was thinking.
The Book of All-PowerEdgar Wallace
Sir Christopher, even a cat, believed firmly in sartorial pulchritude.
American CookeryVarious
Reginald has a magnificent scorn for details, other than sartorial.
ReginaldSaki
And Mary, steely polite, enumerated my sartorial shortcomings.
My Wonderful VisitCharlie Chaplin
And here Sadler turned abruptly from art, and plunged into sartorial details.
An Engagement of ConvenienceLouis Zangwill
sartorial
- of or relating to a tailor or to tailoring
- anatomy of or relating to the sartorius
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Word Origin
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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