sutorial
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin sūtōrius (“of a shoemaker”).
Adjective[edit]
sutorial (not comparable)
- Pertaining to shoemakers or shoemaking.
- 1826, Charles Molloy Westmacott, The Punster's Pocket-book[1]:
- From the son of Crispin who, having nothing but one of his sutorial weapons at hand wherewith to dispatch the cotelette de boef, remarked that his all was at stake […]
- 1863, “Breakfast in Bed; or, Philosophy Between the Sheets. No. VIII. On a remarkable dog”, in Temple Bar, volume 8, London: Ward and Lock, page 209:
- A pair of boots of mine had been sent to this worthy Crispin to be mended, and he kept them twenty-seven days. It wasn’t Easter-time; there was no fair or wake, fatal to sutorial industry, about.
- 2021 June 13, Ruth La Ferla, “High heels are ready to stomp out crocs”, in Philadelphia Tribune, page 3B:
- High-heeled shoes were at the point of flatlining, industry pundits fretted, teetering on the edge of extinction. Fast-forward a few months to find those consumers making a sharp sutorial pivot: trading comfort and function for the joy of dressing up.
- Pertaining to sewing.
- 1878, “Bird architecture § Tailor bird”, in Scribner's Monthly, volume 16, number 3:
- The first mention of its peculiar sutorial powers was made by Pennant, in his "Indian Zoology," where it was accompanied by an illustration.
References[edit]
- Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.