couturière
Americannoun
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couturières
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Etymology
Origin of couturière
Borrowed into English from French around 1810–20
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“Chanel craved the power and independence of men,” says Gioia Diliberto, who has written a novel and a play about the couturière and who contributed an essay to the show’s catalog.
From New York Times ● Oct. 1, 2012
One, Valentina Nicholaevna Sanina, later turned up New York as the great couturière Valentina.
From New York Times ● Apr. 11, 2012
Be that as it may, nobody, upon learning that Beijing has its own couturière, would ever imagine such a salon.
From New York Times ● Dec. 1, 2010
There is, however, a grande couturière who surpasses all her masculine rivals in fatuity and caprice, namely, Madame Rodrigues, the great theatrical dress-maker.
From Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885 by Various
"It looks rather like the waiting-room of a couturière."
From Bones in London by Edgar Wallace
Irina had disappeared into the adjoining bedroom, whence she emerged, in a very short space of time, clad in a tea-gown that bore the air—and the name—of the greatest of Parisian couturières.
From The Genius by Margaret Horton Potter
Furriers, hatters, couturières and shoemakers also present their claims to public favour, so that there was no lack of provision for the wants of the outer man.
From Picturesque Quebec : a sequel to Quebec past and present by Sir J. M. (James MacPherson) Le Moine
Then Poiret, wizard among French couturières, assisted by Bakst, adapted this Oriental colour and line to woman's uses in private life.
From Woman as Decoration by Emily Burbank
One of the French couturières here will send a packer, and will come herself to help the maids.
From Letters of a Diplomat's Wife 1883-1900 by Mary King Waddington
I would just give anything to bring her to New York, give her the run of the best couturières and show her to some of our diamonds-at-breakfast dowagers.
From Sweetapple Cove by George Van Schaick
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