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Sartorial   /sɑrtˈɔriəl/   Listen
adjective
Sartorial  adj.  
1.
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."
2.
(Anat.) Of or pertaining to the sartorius muscle.





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"Sartorial" Quotes from Famous Books



... supposed to have been attired in the period 1860 to 1875; and if finally the cavalry troopers from the near-by army post sported the wide hats and khaki shirts which came into governmental vogue about the time of the Spanish War, all very well and good. The action was everything; the sartorial accessories were as they might be and were and frequently ...
— Sundry Accounts • Irvin S. Cobb
... myself to their hands with the result that my garments were exaggerated in pattern and style and altogether unsuited to my dark complexion and slim figure. But in the wearing of these garments I aggravated the original sartorial offence into a sartorial crime. With my golf trousers and white ducks I wore a derby hat. For nearly a week I wore with a shirt waist a pair of very broad blue silk suspenders embroidered in red. All ...
— The Strange Adventures of Mr. Middleton • Wardon Allan Curtis
... all only Stonor had no sartorial problems; his new uniform and his Strathcona boots polished according to regulations were all he had and all he needed. He surveyed the finished product in his little mirror with strong dissatisfaction. "Ornery-looking cuss," he thought. But a man is no judge ...
— The Woman from Outside - [on Swan River] • Hulbert Footner
... little wicked tailor arrives, of no use to the architectural projects of the Governor: he is turned over to a settler, who leases this sartorial Borgia his liberty for five shillings a week, and allows him to steal and snip what, when, and where he can. The nefarious needleman writes home, that he is as comfortable as a finger in a thimble: that, though a fraction only ...
— The History of Tasmania , Volume II (of 2) • John West
... while with the other he grasps a long pipe which he smokes at leisure. Without mast or sail, he makes speed against wind or current by making use of his feet to drive the oar. He thus gains the advantage of weight and of his strong sartorial muscles. These little craft are the swiftest boats on ...
— The Awakening of China • W.A.P. Martin


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