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sutorial

sutorial adjective: pertaining to shoemakers or shoemaking.

Adjective

sutorial (not comparable)

  1. Pertaining to shoemakers or shoemaking.
    • 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[…]1826, Charles Molloy Westmacott, The Punster's Pocket-book
    • 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.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
  2. Pertaining to sewing.
    • The first mention of its peculiar sutorial powers was made by Pennant, in his "Indian Zoology," where it was accompanied by an illustration.1878, “Bird architecture § Tailor bird”, in Scribner's Monthly, volume 16, number 3

Origin of sutorial

From Latin sūtōrius (“of a shoemaker”).

Questions about sutorial

What does sutorial mean?
Sutorial means pertaining to shoemakers or shoemaking.
What part of speech is sutorial?
Sutorial is an adjective.

Words near sutorial in the dictionary

  1. Sutliff
  2. Sutliffs
  3. sutling
  4. Suto
  5. sutor
  6. sutorial
  7. sutorian
  8. sutors
  9. Sutos
  10. Sutphen
  11. Sutphens

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