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
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
Once the Baron stayed through the winter and fell ill, and a little couturière in the rue de Rennes, whom the old fellow fell in love with, nursed him.
From The Real Latin Quarter by Smith, F. Berkeley (Frank Berkeley)
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