First recorded in 1860–65
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After graduation, she moved to London, where she worked as a window dresser.
From Salon ● Nov. 30, 2022
Instead she worked as a counter assistant in a chemist and as a window dresser before focussing on raising her family.
From BBC ● Nov. 16, 2021
She got kicked out of a succession of schools, then married an openly gay window dresser named John Parker at the age of 19 — a marriage that was, unsurprisingly, short-lived.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2020
After university and military service, Armani worked as a window dresser at the upmarket La Rinascente department store in Milan in 1957 before becoming a menswear designer and eventually launching his label in 1975.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 15, 2020
But the climax was reached when I found it in a drug-store window, where the window dresser had placed it over another placard, the advertisement of a well known patent remedy.
From From Pillar to Post Leaves from a Lecturer's Note-Book by Bangs, John Kendrick
Peter was an electrician and Helmut a window-dresser, so they combined their skills to canny effect.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2018
In 1988, he signed a licensing deal with Giorgio Armani, another self-made tycoon, who had started out as a window-dresser at a department store in Milan.
From The Guardian ● May 10, 2018
But she found professional dance too cutthroat and became a window-dresser for stores like ABC Home & Carpet.
From New York Times ● Jan. 16, 2013
By presenting common things, familiar to commercial art, in a different context, Lichtenstein, a onetime window-dresser, argues that he is creating something new.
From Time Magazine Archive
Now Mr. Povey attached importance to tickets, and since he was acknowledged to be the best window-dresser in Bursley, his views were entitled to respect.
From The Old Wives' Tale by Bennett, Arnold
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