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
- parochial house
- parochialise
- parochialism
- parochiality
- parochialization
- parochialize
- parochially
- parochial school
- parochial schoolmaster
- parochial schoolteacher
- parode
- parodiable
- parodial
- parodic
- parodical
- parodically
- parodise
- parodist
- parodistic
- parodistically
- parodize
- parody
- paroecious
- paroecism
- paroemia