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How to use couture in a sentence

13 example sentences · noun

Couture means the production of high-end, custom-made clothing. Example: “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.”

Examples of couture by meaning

nounThe 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

More sentences with couture

  • Am gonna design a line of autumnwear based on couture collections.2005, Jasmin Oliver, Gucci Girls: Cutting It, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 243. From the entry autumnwear
  • Largely responsible for bringing modern punk and new-wave fashions into the mainstream, she epitomises haute couture of the modern era.2014 July 15, Ann Brooks, Popular Culture: Global Intercultural Perspectives, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 61. From the entry punk
  • That same text also appeared in a “couture inspired” jacket, complete with deckle edges and French flaps to use as bookmarks.2013 February 13, Janine Barchas, The New York Times. From the entry French flap
  • The Hong Kong finish is among the most impressive used in couture sewing for both hems and seams.1988, Margaret Dittman, The Fabric Lover's Scrapbook, page 57. From the entry Hong Kong finish
  • This new scooter is available in six different colors such as raisin black, silver, white dove, couture brown, rogue matt blue and moonlight silver.2019 November 21, “Global e-scooter/moped and e-motorcycle market omprehensive Analysis 2019-2026”, in Hitz Dairies, archived from the…. From the entry raisin black
  • Couture made straight for the refrigerator and returned with cold beer, underhanding them in turn to each of the team members, Sergeant Thi included.2010, Michael Hodgins, Reluctant Warrior, →ISBN. From the entry underhand
  • They have been for centuries the base of such important Parisian industries as jewelry, clockmaking, gunsmithery (in medieval times, swords and armor), and haute couture.1990, James Marston Fitch, Historic Preservation: Curatorial Management of the Built World. From the entry gunsmithery
  • "All the Paris couture (except Fath) is permeated with the easy underdone sort of clothes that were the basis of Chanelism at its height."1954, H.W. Wilson Company, Marjorie Dent Candee, Current biography yearbook: Volume 15. From the entry Chanelism
  • Gaubert said, referring not just to the twice-yearly ready-to-wear collections, but also to the couture presentations some labels produce, as well as precollections and resort collections and —— ka-ching!2008 March 6, Guy Trebay, “Fashion Sees Its Shadow”, in New York Times. From the entry precollection
  • Balenciaga's couture openings are not gala affairs packed with friends, but tense performances where everyone concentrates madly and in silence to take in the fast-paced show.1960, Bettina Ballard, In My Fashion. From the entry Balenciaga
  • The subtle pattern of blues and golds in the embroidery of her dress was so amazing that I used it to design a new evening dress for my haute couture.2003, Valentino, ‘Is there a future in fashion's past?’, Time, 5 Feb 2003. From the entry pattern

Meaning of couture

  1. noun The production of high-end, custom-made clothing.

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Questions about couture in a sentence

How do you use couture in a sentence?
Couture is used as a noun. For example: “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.”
What is a short sentence with couture?
“Am gonna design a line of autumnwear based on couture collections.”
What does couture mean?
Couture means the production of high-end, custom-made clothing.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: couture (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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