Definition of "window-dresser" [window-dresser]

• In a retail store, a person employed to dress a show-window or to arrange in the window an attractive display of samples of the goods for sale in the store. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "He was also a window-dresser, and he had a client who was a Chinese guy who ran a department store on Canal Street, and I remember going down there — this was around 1960, 1961."
• "The chemistry between Rhoda and Joe was immediate and vital, as it had to be, because millions of Americans had spent Saturday nights during the previous four years watching best friends Mary and Rhoda endure bad dates, suffer intrusions from neighbor Phyllis and navigate the ups and downs of their respective careers (Mary a producer of local news at WJM-TV, Rhoda a window-dresser at the department store Hempel's)."
• "Various documents highlight his work as a window-dresser, designer, culture guru, advocate for gay rights, humanist, collector and icon."