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• window dresser
  window dresser

  noun

  a person employed to trim the display windows of a store.
• window-dresser
  window-dresser

  noun

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

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

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

But “we’re in a post-window-display world,” said Simon Doonan, the Barneys O.G. window dresser, in a telephone interview, noting the “impenetrable facade” of Dover Street Market, heir apparent to the luxury avant-garde.

From New York Times • Nov. 27, 2019

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 Bangs, John Kendrick