couturière
See also: couturiere
English
Alternative forms
- couturiere
Etymology
From French couturière.
Noun
couturière (plural couturières)
- A woman who runs a business in custom-made fashion.
- 1994, Charlene Cross, Almost a Whisper, Pocket Books, →ISBN, page 47:
- 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, Amy De la Haye; Shelley Tobin, Chanel: The Couturiere at Work, →ISBN, page 26:
- 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.
- 2012, Robert Warr, The Barker’s Dozen, Bellorum, →ISBN, page 56:
- 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.
- 2020, Patricia Zakreski, “The Writer and the Couturière: Authorship and Creative Industry in the 1870s”, in Gerald Egan, editor, Fashion and Authorship: Literary Production and Cultural Style from the Eighteenth to the Twenty-First Century, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page 213:
- In just moments a skirt is conceived, designed and crafted as the couturière constructs the garment “in any way that might strike her fancy.”
- 2021, Michelle Brandstrup, “Entrepreneurs in the fashion industry”, in Léo-Paul Dana, editor, World Encyclopedia of Entrepreneurship, second edition, Edward Elgar Publishing, →ISBN, page 167:
- In her early years she [Coco Chanel] wanted to sing on stage, rather than to become a couturière.
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French
Etymology
couture + -ière
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ku.ty.ʁjɛʁ/
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Noun
couturière f (plural couturières, masculine couturier)
- dressmaker
- tailor
Related terms
- couture
- couturier
Further reading
- “couturière”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.