couturiere

plural couturieres

1. alternativeAlternative form of couturière.

   She’s bringing in a couturiere from Paris to design our gowns.

   2010, Janet Quin-Harkin, Royal Blood, Berkley Prime Crime, →ISBN

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   The couturiere was most exacting with her tape while she kept up a steady flow of compliments concerning Juliana’s trim waist, full bosom, and long line of leg for one as petite as she.

   1989, Elaine Sima, Sherrill Bodine, The Rake’s Redemption, Diversion Books, published 2013, →ISBN

   A couturiere wearing a competitor’s gown was like a brewer drinking the ale made in another distillery, an act of betrayal.

   1999, Janet Kendall, Hunter of My Heart, Harlequin, →ISBN, pages 143–144

   Madame du Sey announced that they were not to see a couturier, but a couturiere!

   2008, Mary Selvick, Lacey, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 161

   As the couturiere pricked the needle into her upper thigh, she murmured, “This little puzzle could make the evening much, much more fun than I anticipated.”

   2017, Susan Elia MacNeal, The Paris Spy: A Maggie Hope Mystery, Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 70

   Elsa Schiaparelli was another case of a couturiere with a transatlantic life who ended up spending most of the war in New York, leaving her Paris firm in the hands of trusted managers. Similarly, Bruyère, another well-esteemed Paris couturiere, resettled in New York for the war.

   2021, Véronique Pouillard, Paris to New York: The Transatlantic Fashion Industry in the Twentieth Century, Harvard University Press, page 127