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
Lily Templeton, Footwear News, 16 May 2025
The gap between swimsuit and swim shorts may not strike many as a meaningful sartorial schism.
—Eric Twardzik, Robb Report, 16 May 2025
Sure, summer 2024 may have been Charli XCX’s Brat Summer, but fans are officially declaring 2025 a Lorde Summer—and a sartorial vibe shift is already afoot.
—Christian Allaire, Vogue, 15 May 2025
That Justice Souter, in truth, does not is revealed by the many articles published since his passing, which tend to discuss his erudition, decency, and wit, and even his lunch, exercise, sartorial habits, and other charming New Englander quirks—but not so much in the way of influential writings.
—Jeannie Suk Gersen, New Yorker, 15 May 2025
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“Sartorial.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sartorial. Accessed 21 May. 2025.
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