couturiern.
/kuːˈtjʊrɪeɪ//kᵿˈtʃʊrɪeɪ/ A male dressmaker or fashion designer. Also attributive.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > tailoring or making clothes > dressmaking > [noun] > fashionable dressmaking > dressmaker > male
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1899 M. Beerbohm More 147 For all the devices of her couturier, Fashion never looked aught but her worst.
1928 Daily Mail 9 Aug. 4/3 A delicate carmine lipstick, a new shade just evolved by a leading Paris couturier.
1929 Daily Tel. 15 Jan. 7/7 The famous couturier, M. Worth.
1930 E. Waugh Labels 18 There is an inscrutable world..behind the industry of making women's clothes... The high diplomacy of the couturiers.
1957 Times 26 Oct. 7/3 It has been asked several times recently whether it can reasonably be expected of any couturier that he should switch from couture to wholesale design and back again interminably.
1968 ‘P. Hobson’ Titty's Dead vii. 78 Miss Plumpton, secure in couturier clothes, wove graciously in and out.
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