couture
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cou·ture
(ko͞o-to͝or′, -tür′)n.
1. The business of designing, making, and selling highly fashionable, usually custom-made clothing.
2. Dressmakers and fashion designers considered as a group.
3. The high-fashion clothing created by designers.
[French, sewing, from Old French cousture, from Vulgar Latin *cōnsūtūra, from Latin cōnsuere, cōnsūt-, to sew together : com-, com- + suere, to sew; see syū- in Indo-European roots.]
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couture
(kuːˈtʊə; French kutyr)n
(Clothing & Fashion)
a. high-fashion designing and dressmaking
b. (as modifier): couture clothes.
[from French: sewing, dressmaking, from Old French cousture seam, from Latin consuere to stitch together, from suere to sew]
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cou•ture
(kuˈtʊər; Fr. kuˈtür)n.
1. the occupation or business of a couturier.
2. fashion designers or couturiers collectively.
3. the apparel created by such designers.
adj. 4. created by a fashion designer or pertaining to or suggesting such creation: couture clothes; the couture look.
[1905–10; < French: literally, sewing, seam < Vulgar Latin *cō(n)sūtūra= Latin consūt(us), past participle of consuere to sew together (con- con- + suere to sew) + -ūra -ure; compare suture]
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couture
the art and practice of dressmaking and designing. — couturier, couturière, n.
See also: Clothing-Ologies & -Isms. Copyright 2008 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
couture
The fashionable and expensive part of the dressmaking and clothes-designing business.
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Couture
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
couture
[kuˈtjʊər kuˈtʊər] n (= haute couture) → haute couture f
modif [collection, house, show] → de haute couture
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005
couture
n → Couture f
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