window dresser
noun
a person employed to trim the display windows of a store.
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window-dresser
window-dressernouna person employed to design and build up a display in a shop window
window dresser
Americannoun
window-dresser
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noun
Etymology
Origin of window dresser
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
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
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
I was window dresser for a gents' furnishing store up to a few weeks ago, but it—it changed hands.
From Star-Dust by Fannie Hurst
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
In June 1929, the Episcopal liberal weekly The Churchman published an attack on Tsar Hays, called him a "window-dresser," suggested that he was an "office-boy" rather than "tsar."
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 Arnold Bennett
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