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Sartorial   /sɑrtˈɔriəl/   Listen
Sartorial

adjective
1.
Of or relating to the sartorius muscle.
2.
Of or relating to a tailor or to tailoring.






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"Sartorial" Quotes from Famous Books



... skirts on the stair landing, and looked up. Down the broad stairway, so well designed to serve as a show-window for the sartorial triumphs of Baldpate's gay summer people, came the tall handsome girl who had the night before set all his plans awry. In the swift-moving atmosphere of the inn she had hitherto been to Mr. Magee but a puppet of the shadows, a figure more fictitious ...
— Seven Keys to Baldpate • Earl Derr Biggers

... effect that has long made him remarked in polite circles, which no mere money can achieve. Money, indeed, if certain ill-natured gossip of tradesmen be true, has been an inconsiderable factor in the encompassment of this sartorial distinction. He waits now, eager for a first glimpse of the young woman whose charms, even by report, have already won the best devotion he has to give. A grievous error it is to suppose that Cupid's artillery is ...
— The Spenders - A Tale of the Third Generation • Harry Leon Wilson

... to think of anything more worthy of the highest pitches of emotion than this. If it had been she and Miss Mapp who had been embroiled, hoarding and dress would have occurred to her. But as it was, no one in his senses could dream that the Captain and the Major were sartorial rivals, unless they had quarrelled over the question as to which of them wore ...
— Miss Mapp • Edward Frederic Benson

... astride the back fence, he examined his injuries—thoughtfully touched the triangular tear in his trousers, inspected minor sartorial and corporeal lacerations, set his hat firmly upon his head, and gazed across the monotony of the back-yard fences at Clarence. The cat eyed him disrespectfully, paws tucked under, tail curled up against his well-fed ...
— The Green Mouse • Robert W. Chambers



Words linked to "Sartorial" :   sartorius, tailoring, tailor, sartor



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