Crossword clues for sartorial
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sartorial \Sar*to"ri*al\, a. [See Sartorius.]
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Of or pertaining to a tailor or his work.
Our legs skulked under the table as free from sartorial impertinences as those of the noblest savages.
--Lowell. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the sartorius muscle.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"pertaining to a tailor," 1807, from Modern Latin sartorius, from Late Latin sartor "tailor" (source also of French sartre "tailor"), literally "patcher, mender," from Latin sart-, past participle stem of sarcire "to patch, mend," from PIE root *serk- "to make whole." Earlier in English in same sense was Related: sartorian (1660s). Sartorius as the name of the long leg muscle is because it is used in crossing the legs to bring them into the position needed to sit like a tailor. Related: Sartorially.
Wiktionary
a. 1 (context not comparable English) Of or relating to the tailoring of clothing. 2 (senseid en quality of dress) Of or relating to the quality of dress 3 (context anatomy English) Of or relating to the sartorius muscle.
WordNet
adj. of or relating to the sartorius muscle
of or relating to a tailor or to tailoring
Usage examples of "sartorial".
My fondness for gossip and laughter, my brimming appetites, my tendency to sartorial chaos and my trick of farting at will made me one of the most popular men at Whitehall.
The skirts of the gown were stiffened with tarlatan, which gave the dress a degree of formality even without the hourglass shape imposed by stays, and Arabella after a swift glance in the long mirror decided she had sacrificed enough comfort in the interest of sartorial propriety for one day.
Beau Brummell sauntered in, a picture of sartorial elegance, though he wore the simplest outfit possible, with no jewelry except a plain gold ring.
He was resplendent, hoping his sartorial elegance might possibly overawe the dread Lord Pardos and assure him the respect that the nasty pirate had thus far withheld.
He was a vision of sartorial splendor, cool and fresh in a striped summer suit, hair soothingly short and pomaded, his wine-colored shirt and tie exquisitely matched.
The only concession she had made to Amberdrake's sartorial splendor was to harmonize with his browns and ambers with her own browns and creams.
Torn between fact and wish, between cynicism and idealism, Bernini tempers the all but caricatural verisimilitude of his faces with enormous sartorial abstractions, which are the embodiment, in stone or bronze, of the everlasting commonplaces of rhetoric - the heroism, the holiness, the sublimity to which mankind perpetually aspires, for the most part in vain.
Alicia Dammers, with her good looks, her tall, slim figure, and her irreproachable sartorial taste, had satisfied his very fastidious requirements so far as feminine appearance was concerned.
The Beau Brummell of hominids debuting in an era of sartorial barbarism.
Oswald Boone, has warned me that my sartorial style represents a serious threat to the apparel industry.
A toupee, don't y' know, is the sartorial sine qua non of every middle-aged Beau Brummel afflicted with baldness.
Where Brian appeared as the harried newspaper columnist always with his back against the wall, Taylor was the picture of sophisticated tranquility and sartorial splendor.
The overweight, over-indulged, underbrained fop in sartorial plumage that could not hide his excesses.
As for his sartorial inelegance, a man who is in uniform nine tenths of the time and is more used to deep space than to civilization can hardly be expected to know how to dress properly.