Word of the Day for Monday, November 30, 2009
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couture \koo-TOOR\, noun:
couture \koo-TOOR\, noun:
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1. The business of designing, making, and selling highly fashionable, usually custom-made clothing for women.
1. The business of designing, making, and selling highly fashionable, usually custom-made clothing for women.
2. Dressmakers and fashion designers considered as a group.
3. The high-fashion clothing created by designers.
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adjective:
adjective:
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1. Created or produced by a fashion designer.
2. Being, having, or suggesting the style, quality, etc., of a fashion designer; very fashionable.
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The workwear couture of the masses and Mrs. B.O's couture of the elite, complete with her $500 soup-kitchen shoes, are definitely polar opposites!
--Spy Maker, JSA's Blog
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Couture is from French meaning sewing, from Old French cousture, from Vulgar Latin cōnsūtūra, from Latin cōnsuere, cōnsūt-, to sew together.
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