单词 | pre-sartorial |
释义 | pre-sartorialadj. rare. Before the existence of clothing or tailoring; (hence) of or relating to the time before the Fall, prelapsarian. ΚΠ 1865 J. R. Lowell in N. Amer. Rev. Oct. 597 Bran had its prophets, and the presartorial simplicity of Adam its martyrs, tailored impromptu from the tar-pot by incensed neighbors. 1932 R. R. Marrett Faith, Hope & Charity in Primitive Relig. 233 in Amer. Anthropologist (1933) 35 173 [Jimmy Button] tore all his European clothes to rags in order that his friends might participate in his finery, and offered up the decencies of civilization on the altar of pre-sartorial morality. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1865 |
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