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
Rachel Syme, New Yorker, 4 May 2025
Mugler’s work has become a sartorial touchstone for drag performers, too, for its open-armed embrace of camp.
—Scottie Andrew, CNN Money, 3 May 2025
In more contemporary interpretations of Black dandyism and high sartorial style, celebrities have adopted the style making their own: André 3000, Pharrell, Rocky A$AP, actor Colman Domingo and fashion designer Dapper Dan, to name a few.
—Lisa Vernon Sparks, Charlotte Observer, 30 Apr. 2025
Today, the quiet-luxury favorite is, perhaps, one of the safest sartorial investments money can buy—which is probably why trench coats are so popular.
—Kelsey Stiegman, Glamour, 30 Apr. 2025
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“Sartorial.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sartorial. Accessed 13 May. 2025.
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