window dresser
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noun
a person employed to trim the display windows of a store.
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Origin of window dresser
First recorded in 1860–65
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How to use window dresser in a sentence
Somehow I understood reading the newspaper report that the window dresser had been inspired by what was going on in New York.
Marie Louise turned and came up like a wax image on casters pulled forward by an invisible window-dresser.
The Cup of Fury|Rupert HughesTo illustrate: A window-dresser is decorating the window in Woolworth's.
Commercial Law|Samuel Williston, Richard D. Currier, and Richard W. HillThe window-dresser was lost again in the bank manager who has arranged a profitable overdraft.
Tales of Chinatown|Sax Rohmer
British Dictionary definitions for window dresser
window-dresser
noun
a person employed to design and build up a display in a shop window
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