# sartorial

Pronunciation: US say "sahr-TOR-ee-uhl" /sɑɹˈtɔɹ.i.əl/; UK/AUS say "sah-TAW-ree-uhl" /sɑːˈtɔː.ɹi.əl/

## Adjective

1. Relating to clothes, tailoring, or the way a person dresses.
   - Simple: To do with clothes and how someone dresses, or how clothes are made.
   - _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._

## Other meanings

- (adjective) Of, involving, or belonging to the sartorius, the long strap-shaped muscle that runs diagonally across the front of the thigh.

## 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.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/sartorial (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).