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
Laia Farran Graves, Forbes.com, 10 June 2025
White-on-white looks are a sartorial signature for some of the most stylish women in Hollywood (read: Jennifer Lopez and Kate Middleton).
—Kelsey Stiegman, Glamour, 7 June 2025
More than 20,000 Amazon shoppers are solving that sartorial problem by grabbing the OgHom Clothes Steamer.
—Isabel Garcia, People.com, 7 June 2025
The Dakota Johnson book of style weaves a sartorial web hat looks set to keep her a sheer material girl all summer long.
—Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 6 June 2025
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“Sartorial.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sartorial. Accessed 14 Jun. 2025.
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