sutile
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Etymology edit
Adjective edit
sutile (not comparable)
- (formal, rare) Done by stitching.
- c. 1683, Thomas Browne, Certain Miscellany Tracts:
- these were made up after all ways of art, compactile, sutile, plectile
- 1791, James Boswell, “(please specify the year)”, in The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. […], London: […] Henry Baldwin, for Charles Dilly, […], →OCLC:
- Half the rooms are adorned with a kind of sutile pictures, which imitate tapestry.
References edit
- “sutile”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Anagrams edit
Latin edit
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sūtile
Middle English edit
Adjective edit
sutile
- Alternative form of sotil