sartore
Italian
Noun
sartore m (plural sartori, feminine sartora)
- (archaic) tailor
- Synonym: sarto
- mid 1300s–mid 1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XV”, in Inferno [Hell], lines 20–21; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate], 2nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:
- […] e sì ver’ noi aguzzavan le ciglia / come ’l vecchio sartor fa ne la cruna.
- […] and they sharpened their eyes towards us like an old tailor does at the needle's eye.
Derived terms
- sartoria (“tailor's”)
Latin
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