window dresser

noun

1. a person employed to trim the display windows of a store.

window-dresser

noun

1. a person employed to design and build up a display in a shop window

Word History and Origins

Origin of window dresser¹

First recorded in 1860–65

Example Sentences

Somehow I understood reading the newspaper report that the window dresser had been inspired by what was going on in New York.

From The Daily Beast

Marie Louise turned and came up like a wax image on casters pulled forward by an invisible window-dresser.

From Project Gutenberg

To illustrate: A window-dresser is decorating the window in Woolworth's.

From Project Gutenberg

The window-dresser was lost again in the bank manager who has arranged a profitable overdraft.

From Project Gutenberg