couturière
Americannoun
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Etymology
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
Mademoiselle Melanie found her young employée's health too delicate for an exhausting apprenticeship to the needle, and employed Ruth in copying and coloring sketches of costumes which the accomplished couturière herself designed.
From Fairy Fingers A Novel by Ritchie, Anna Cora Ogden Mowatt
"It looks rather like the waiting-room of a couturière."
From Bones in London by Wallace, Edgar
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