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
Kerane Marcellus, Essence, 23 Apr. 2024
On Not Dressing for Social Media All ages can appreciate an event that inspires people to take sartorial risks, but the Coachella Elder has accrued enough festival wisdom to ask: what for?
—Alana Hope Levinson, Vogue, 18 Apr. 2024
The result, Gatwa hopes, is a sartorial spread that nods to the Doctor’s varied roots.
—EW.com, 16 Apr. 2024
For anyone who came of age in the late nineties and still recalls the moment in which grunge (fading) and pop-punk (ascendant) had a brief but potent sartorial collision, the look of the Guts tour, both onstage and off, will feel deeply familiar.
—Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2024
In fact, sartorial stans are predicting the floral-headband trend will make a comeback this year because of Del Rey, the flower-crown queen herself.
—Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 12 Apr. 2024
Keep scrolling to see 20 of his top sartorial moments in honor of his birthday.
—Robyn Mowatt, Essence, 10 Apr. 2024
The black bodycon mini is covered in yellow and orange florals—the perfect sartorial celebration of the impending summer.
—Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 10 Apr. 2024
The British press were equally resistant to any sartorial strategy that might have been in play.
—Leah Dolan, CNN, 9 Apr. 2024
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“Sartorial.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sartorial. Accessed 26 Apr. 2024.
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