couturière
Americannoun
plural
couturièresEtymology
Origin of couturière
Borrowed into English from French around 1810–20
Example Sentences
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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
"It looks rather like the waiting-room of a couturière."
From Bones in London by Wallace, Edgar
But Supplis was an exception, and he never assumed the name of couturier, the masculine form of couturière, "dress-maker."
From Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885 by Various
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