window dresser
noun
a person employed to trim the display windows of a store.
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window-dressernouna person employed to design and build up a display in a shop window
window dresser
Americannoun
window-dresser
British
noun
Etymology
Origin of window dresser
First recorded in 1860–65
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Arregui is a principled revolutionary dedicated to his cause, while Molina is a gay, flamboyant window dresser who’s been arrested for public indecency.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2025
Swiftly tiring of life in the military, he found a job as a window dresser at La Rinascente - a department store in Milan - where he moved swiftly through the ranks.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2025
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
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 John Kendrick Bangs
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
I could see that he was not what in the old days I’d have called a window-dresser.
From The Prairie Mother by Arthur E. Becher
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