window dresser

noun

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

Origin of window dresser

First recorded in 1860–65

Words Nearby window dresser

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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.
Tales of a Bergdorf Goodman Window Dresser | Erin Cunningham | December 5, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST
Marie Louise turned and came up like a wax image on casters pulled forward by an invisible window-dresser.
The Cup of Fury | Rupert Hughes
To illustrate: A window-dresser is decorating the window in Woolworth's.
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The 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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