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sartorial
\sar-TOR-ee-uhl\ , adjective:
1.Of or relating to a tailor or to tailoring.
2.Of or relating to clothing, or style or manner of dress.
3.[Anatomy] Of or relating to the sartorius muscle.
形容词 a.
1.缝纫的
2.男式服装的

Quotes:
His sartorial style runs toward jeans, Hawaiian shirts and cowboy boots, and he favors the grizzled, haven't-shaven-in-days look.
~Gary Rivlin, "AOL's Rough Riders", Industry Standard, October 23, 2000
She probably sensed that he had married her for her beautiful dark eyes and sartorial splendor -- and she may now have regretted the plumed hats and luxurious fur collars she had worn seductively in her youth.
~Thomas A. Underwood, Allen Tate: Orphan of the South
The Puritan leadership was especially distressed by the sartorial ostentation of the lower classes, who were supposed to content themselves with "raiment suitable to the order in which God's providence has placed them."
~Patricia O'Toole, Money & Morals in America

Origin:
Sartorial derives from Latin sartor, "a patcher, tailor," from sartus, past participle of sarcire, "to patch, to mend."

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