window dresser

American  

noun

1. a person employed to trim the display windows of a store.

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window-dresser British  

noun

1. a person employed to design and build up a display in a shop window

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Etymology

Origin of window dresser

First recorded in 1860–65

Example Sentences

After graduation, she moved to London, where she worked as a window dresser.

From Salon • Nov. 30, 2022

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

The story centers on two prison cellmates in Argentina: a gay window dresser name Molina, and Valentin, a political revolutionary in declining health.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 19, 2020

Lindbergh, born in 1944 in Lissa, Germany, worked as a window dresser for a department store before enrolling in the Berlin Academy of Fine Arts in the early 1960s.

From BBC • Sep. 4, 2019

Judging from the enthusiasm with which the store manager and the window dresser received the suggestion, it would appear that the idea could be used almost anywhere.

From Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Twenty-Fifth Annual Meeting Battle Creek, Michigan, September 10 and 11, 1934 by Northern Nut Growers Association