sutorial

Adjective

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...
   • 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...
   • 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...
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,...