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
Caroline Reilly, Robb Report, 18 Oct. 2024
The fall/winter 2024 runways proved its sartorial power, with Paloma Wool and Conner Ives pairing bubble skirts with pants, and Marques' Almeida styling a mini dress on top of wide-leg jeans.
—Ebony-Renee Baker, refinery29.com, 15 Oct. 2024
Zendaya, who has collaborated with Roach from her Disney Channel days through to her life now as one of Tinseltown’s most bankable stars, acknowledges that her buzzy career owes plenty to his strategic sartorial scaffolding.
—Charlotte Collins, Architectural Digest, 9 Oct. 2024
Today’s tweet by Stone isn’t the first time the sartorial political consultant has been mentioned by Abbasi, or in relation to The Apprentice.
—Ted Johnson, Deadline, 8 Oct. 2024
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“Sartorial.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sartorial. Accessed 27 Oct. 2024.
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