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sutile

sutile adjective: done by stitching.

Adjective

sutile (not comparable)

  1. (formal, rare) Done by stitching.
    • these were made up after all ways of art, compactile, sutile, plectilec. 1683 (date written), Thomas Brown [i.e., Thomas Browne], “(please specify the page)”, in [Thomas Tenison], editor, Certain Miscellany Tracts, London: […] Charles Mearn, […], published 1683, →OCLC
    • Half the rooms are adorned with a kind of sutile pictures, which imitate tapestry.1791, James Boswell, “(please specify the year)”, in James Boswell, editor, The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. […], London: […] Henry Baldwin, for Charles Dilly, […], →OCLC

Origin of sutile

From Latin sūtilis.

Questions about sutile

What does sutile mean?
Sutile means done by stitching.
What part of speech is sutile?
Sutile is an adjective.

Words near sutile in the dictionary

  1. Sutherlin
  2. Sutherlins
  3. suthers
  4. Sutho
  5. Sutil
  6. sutile
  7. Sutill
  8. sutimlimab
  9. Sutla
  10. sutle
  11. sutled

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