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couture

/kuːˈtjʊə/US/kuˈtʊɹ/

couture noun: the production of high-end, custom-made clothing.

Noun

couture (countable and uncountable, plural coutures)

  1. The production of high-end, custom-made clothing.
    • It was the branding of these products, rather than the couture itself, that would become the foundation of the industry, generating huge global sales by the last quarter of the century.2007, Cally Blackman, 100 Years of Fashion Illustration, →ISBN, page 166
    • Anyway, there are only a few hundred clients in the world who regularly buy couture, including Middle Eastern royalty and American businesswomen.2018 June 30, Vanessa Friedman, “Why We Cover High Fashion”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

Proper noun capitalized: Couture

Couture (plural Coutures)

  1. A surname.

couture meaning in Urdu, Bengali and Gujarati

couture in Urdu

کاؤچر

couture in Bengali

পোশাক তৈরির কৌশল

couture in Gujarati

કોશ્ચર

Examples of couture in a sentence

  • Am gonna design a line of autumnwear based on couture collections.
  • Largely responsible for bringing modern punk and new-wave fashions into the mainstream, she epitomises haute couture of the modern era.
  • That same text also appeared in a “couture inspired” jacket, complete with deckle edges and French flaps to use as bookmarks.

All 13 example sentences with couture

Forms of couture

Noun
pluralcoutures
Proper noun
pluralCoutures

Origin of couture

Ellipsis of haute couture, ultimately from French couture.

Borrowed from French Couture.

Words formed from couture

Phrases with couture

Words that rhyme with couture

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Questions about couture

What does couture mean?
Couture means the production of high-end, custom-made clothing.
What is couture in Urdu?
Couture in Urdu is کاؤچر. See Couture meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is couture?
Couture can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce couture?
Couture is pronounced /kuːˈtjʊə/ (UK).
What is the plural of couture?
The plural of couture is coutures.

Words near couture in the dictionary

  1. Coutos
  2. Coutras
  3. Coutts
  4. Coutts Crossing
  5. Coutu
  6. couture
  7. couture house
  8. couture houses
  9. coutures
  10. couturial
  11. couturier

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: couture (page history and authors); Couture (page history and authors); couture (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); couture (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); couture (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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