Definition of couture
1 : the business of designing, making, and selling fashionable custom-made women's clothing the world of Paris couture
2 : the designers and establishments engaged in couture dresses made by the couture
3 : the clothes created by couture The actress was wearing couture.
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Examples of couture in a Sentence
The book discusses the relationship between culture and couture.
I can't afford to wear couture.
Recent Examples of couture from the Web
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Nowadays, black hairstyles are being worn not just by wypipo on vacation in the Bahamas but by the Kardashians, models on haute couture runways and even white supremacists.
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Today's runway reunion between the two fashion forces marked Alaïa's first couture show in six years.
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Mingling with guests, Toledano said he was relieved the weather turned sunny just in time for the house’s outdoor couture show and the Les Arts Décoratifs garden party.
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But Armani's fall-winter couture silhouette was all about the chest.
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Designer Bertrand Guyon took the iconic Parisian couturier's passion for painting Monday to produce a diaphanous collection of couture gowns that fluttered by guests at Paris' Place Vendome.
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Of her different lines, her fine jewelry collection ranges from $850 to $25,000, her high jewelry collection is priced from $25,000 to $650,000, and haute couture prices top out at $75,000 to $850,000.
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Leave it to one of fashion's most creative houses to make a rug look like couture.
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Since 2013, one of the core values of the house is simply to maintain exorbitant price tags — T-shirts cost up to $1,000 and couture jackets are priced as high as $95,000.
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Origin and Etymology of couture
French, from Old French cousture sewing, from Vulgar Latin *consutura, from Latin consutus, past participle of consuere to sew together, from com- + suere to sew — more at sew
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COUTURE Defined for English Language Learners
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playDefinition of couture for English Language Learners
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: the business of designing, making, or selling women's clothes; also : women's clothes in general
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