sartorial
/sɑːˈtɔːrɪəl
/adjective [attributive]
Relating to tailoring, clothes, or style of dress: sartorial elegance...
- Do you know a businessman who turns heads as he strides the city's sidewalks in his perfectly tailored sartorial elegance?
- Patients prefer doctors to dress in a semiformal style, but when accompanied by a smiling face it is even better, suggesting a friendly manner may be more important than sartorial style.
- I've dressed up a bit in deference to Evans's sartorial elegance.
Derivatives
sartorially
- Sitting in his sunny front room silhouetted in the bay window, white t-shirt, tartan shorts and sports socks, he is sartorially the polar opposite of the traditional bow-tie and tails combo.
- Fortunately our appearance did not put off our new-found, sartorially elegant friends and we spent three days fishing with them, fishing mini-matches on two of those days.
- Certainly the more sartorially aware New Yorkers adore his stuff.
Origin
Early 19th century: from Latin sartor 'tailor' (from sarcire 'to patch') + -ial.
Rhymes
- economise
- economism
- economist
- economistic
- economization
- economize
- economizer
- economy
- Economy 7
- economy class
- economy-class syndrome
- economy drive
- economy of scale
- economy of scope
- economy-size
- economy-sized
- e-content
- e contra
- econtra
- e contrario
- eco-nut
- ecophene
- ecophenotype
- ecophenotypic
- ecophysiological