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

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

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

From Salon • Nov. 30, 2022

Instead she worked as a counter assistant in a chemist and as a window dresser before focussing on raising her family.

From BBC • Nov. 16, 2021

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 Bangs, John Kendrick