couturière
/kuˈtʊɹ.i.əɹ/
couturière noun: a woman who runs a business in custom-made fashion.
Noun
couturière (plural couturières)
- A woman who runs a business in custom-made fashion.
- Considering the enormous cost of the gowns, which the countess had insisted Leah needed, she imagined the couturière’s fees for such work would be equally as hefty.1994, Charlene Cross, Almost a Whisper, Pocket Books, →ISBN, page 47
- Many of Chanel’s biographers give the impression that she became a couturière by chance or whim, whereas in fact she had strong business sense and the backing of an intelligent, influential partner in Boy Capel.1994, Amy De la Haye, Shelley Tobin, Chanel: The Couturiere at Work, →ISBN, page 26
Examples of couturière in a sentence
- A positive note today was a visit by Aunt Emily’s couturière to measure me for some ‘appropriately fashionable gowns’ as if we Americans have no idea of fashion or style.2012, Robert Warr, The Barker’s Dozen, Bellorum, →ISBN, page 56:
- In just moments a skirt is conceived, designed and crafted as the couturière constructs the garment “in any way that might strike her fancy.”2020, Patricia Zakreski, “The Writer and the Couturière: Authorship and Creative Industry in the 1870s”, in Gerald Egan, editor, Fashion...
- In her early years she [Coco Chanel] wanted to sing on stage, rather than to become a couturière.2021, Michelle Brandstrup, “Entrepreneurs in the fashion industry”, in Léo-Paul Dana, editor, World Encyclopedia of Entrepreneurship, 2nd...
Forms of couturière
| plural | couturières |
|---|---|
| alternative form | couturiere |
Origin of couturière
Borrowed from French couturière.
Questions about couturière
- What does couturière mean?
- Couturière means a woman who runs a business in custom-made fashion.
- How do you use couturière in a sentence?
- A positive note today was a visit by Aunt Emily’s couturière to measure me for some ‘appropriately fashionable gowns’ as if we Americans have no idea of fashion or style.
- What part of speech is couturière?
- Couturière is a noun.
- How do you pronounce couturière?
- Couturière is pronounced /kuˈtʊɹ.i.əɹ/.
- What is the plural of couturière?
- The plural of couturière is couturières.
Words near couturière in the dictionary
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