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
Meredith Kile, PEOPLE, 27 Nov. 2025
Buttons adorned either side of the lapel-like fixtures on the coat, while waist pockets with diagonal lines employed an edge of sartorial severity for the look.
—Julia Teti, Footwear News, 26 Nov. 2025
The seafoamy suit is a welcome spark of color for Lady Gaga, who has stuck to a gothic and monochromatic sartorial rhythm for the last little while.
—Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 22 Nov. 2025
This is not the first sartorial matter to be discussed in connection with Mangione's prosecution.
—Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 19 Nov. 2025
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“Sartorial.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sartorial. Accessed 3 Dec. 2025.
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