Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The business of designing, making, and selling highly fashionable, usually custom-made clothing for women.
- n. Dressmakers and fashion designers considered as a group.
- n. The high-fashion clothing created by designers.
Wiktionary
- n. fashion The production of high-end, custom-made clothing
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. high fashion designing and dressmaking.
WordNet 3.0
- n. high fashion designing and dressmaking
Etymologies
- Shortening of haute couture, thus ultimately from French couture (Wiktionary)
- 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. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“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.”
The Wall Street Journal: From Idea to Paper Cutout to Runway Gown
“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.”
The Wall Street Journal: French Master Chef Reinvents His Art
“On Sept. 8, she donned a blue muslin couture frock to the Toronto premiere of her film.”
Fashion Forward: Blanchett is bright in Armani's Black Lace makeup
“-- Samsung is into high fashion: Italy's newest in couture, Derercuny, part of the electronics co. 's Cheil Industries.”
“Note 130: Cheng Meibao, Diyu Wenhua yu Guojia Rentong: Wanqing yilai Guangdongwenhuaguan de Xingcheng (Regional culture and national identification: The formation of concept of the Cantonese couture from the late Qing period) (Beijing: Sanlian Shudian, 2006). back”
Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE)
“It turns out that the new model size for haute couture is now Size 0.”
“Whenever anyone says the word couture, I reach for my gun.”
“The word couture is synonymous with extravaganza and opulence and with just two shows a day, one can expect elaborate, larger than life sets and detailed work on the garments.”
“As the word couture exudes grandness, but the sets didn't reflect grandeur.”
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