sartorial: M-W's Word of the Day

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The Word of the Day for January 15 is:

sartorial \sar-TOR-ee-ul\ adjective
: of or relating to a tailor or tailored clothes; broadly : of or relating to clothes

Example sentence:
"Far be it from me to criticize your sartorial choices," said Helen, laughing, "but do you really think that shirt goes with those pants?"

Did you know?
It's easy to uncover the root of "sartorial." Just strip off the suffix "-ial" and you discover the Latin noun "sartor," meaning "tailor" (literally, "one who patches or mends"). Sartorial splendor has been the stuff of voguish magazines for years, and even "sartor" itself has occasionally proven fashionable, as it did in 1843, when Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote of "coats whose memory turns the sartor pale," or in the 1870 title _The Sartor, or British journal of cutting, clothing, and fashion_. "Sartorial" has been in style with English speakers since at least 1823.

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