sartorial
- 1Relating to clothes, tailoring, or the way a person dresses.
Even on a camping trip, his sartorial standards never slipped.
His sartorial taste ran to tweed jackets, knitted ties, and leather shoes he had resoled rather than replaced.
UsageMostly before nouns: sartorial choices, sartorial taste, sartorial standards.
Note
When it describes a person, the word can be graded, and the most sartorial member of a group is the best dressed. In phrases such as sartorial history or sartorial choices, it is not graded. It can cover a whole outfit, from the cut of a suit to matching shoes and earrings, and a sartorial conversion is a change in how someone dresses rather than a visit to a tailor.
Less common meaning
- 2Of, involving, or belonging to the sartorius, the long strap-shaped muscle that runs diagonally across the front of the thigh.
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Origin
Latin sarcire, "to patch, mend," gave Late Latin sartor, "tailor," and from that came New Latin sartorius, "pertaining to a tailor," the source of the English word.
Checked 1 Nov 2026 · 3 facts
- Latin sarcire meant “to patch, mend” and gave Late Latin sartor, meaning “tailor.” en.wiktionary.org
- New Latin sartorius derived from sartor and meant “pertaining to a tailor.” en.wiktionary.org
- New Latin sartorius is the source of English sartorial. en.wiktionary.org