sartorial

adjective

sar·to·ri·al sär-ˈtȯr-ē-əl

sər-,

sə-

: of or relating to a tailor or tailored clothes

broadly : of or relating to clothes

poor sartorial taste

sartorially

sär-ˈtȯr-ē-ə-lē

adverb

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It's easy to uncover the root of sartorial. Just strip off the suffix -ial and you discover the Latin noun sartor, meaning "tailor" (literally, "one who patches or mends"). Sartorial splendor has been the stuff of voguish magazines for years, and even sartor itself has occasionally proven fashionable, as it did in 1843, when Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote of "coats whose memory turns the sartor pale," or in the 1870 title The Sartor, or British journal of cutting, clothing, and fashion. Sartorial has been in style with English speakers since at least 1823.

Examples of sartorial in a Sentence

They accused him of having poor sartorial taste. The wedding party arrived in sartorial splendor.

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And now there's a trailer to sate your thirst for Alan Cumming's sartorial flare or the machinations of reality stars and the occasional British Lord. —

Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 18 Dec. 2024 For decades, the flagship on Fifth Avenue and 58th Street housed a custom salon, an atelier bustling with seamstresses catering to the sartorial whims of society’s grande dames. —

Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 18 Dec. 2024 Opting to keep her sartorial statement the main fixture of her ensemble, Kidman wore few jewelry pieces. —

Julia Teti, WWD, 17 Dec. 2024 Zac Posen continues to wield his sartorial touch on Gap basics. —

Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 13 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for sartorial