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Definition of "couture" []

  • The business of designing, making, and selling highly fashionable, usually custom-made clothing for women. (noun)
  • Dressmakers and fashion designers considered as a group. (noun)
  • The high-fashion clothing created by designers. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "couture" in a sentence
  • "The term couture refers to high-fashion design and dressmaking."
  • "She took home this image—which she dubbed "couture marries sports"—to her Mannheim-based atelier, a former paper factory with creamy pink walls and large steel reinforcement beams renovated by the late French architect Yves Bayard."
  • "As [the early 20th-century chef/philosopher Auguste] Escoffier explained more than a hundred years ago: cuisine like couture is one of these creative fields that involve exaggeration and insolence."
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