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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Last week Rihanna made her debut at Cannes Film Festival—and such occasion calls for couture, naturally.
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And while her use of technology is a foundational — and often mind-bending — aspect of her work, just as compelling is her dedication to the painstaking hand craftsmanship that characterizes traditional haute couture.
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Even Rihanna was spotted at one point gliding through the party with only one bodyguard on her couture tail.
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This was a fashion show in seam-free camouflage haute-couture.
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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
First Known Use: 1908
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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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