sartorial
adjective
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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
Julia Teti, Footwear News, 31 Mar. 2025
And Mikey Madison stepped right up to the sartorial plate.
—Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 30 Mar. 2025
As faux-fur weather makes way for random pockets of sun and bursts of rain, Zendaya has pieced together the sartorial cheat code for transitional dressing.
—Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 28 Mar. 2025
Macron also has a tendency to create coordinated sartorial moments with other high-profile figures in Europe.
—Julia Teti, WWD, 14 Mar. 2025
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“Sartorial.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sartorial. Accessed 3 Apr. 2025.
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