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Meanings of dressmaker in English
Person who makes custom clothing for men and women.
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Examples for "couturier"
Examples for "couturier"
1
London-based famed shoe couturier Jimmy Choo poses in this undated handout photo.
2
Three years later, he went to work for couturier Jean Patou.
3
The group was founded in Paris in 1912 by French couturier Madeleine Vionnet.
4
Worth was couturier for Princess Pauline Metternich & the Empress Eugenie.
5
The picture is a piece of couturier sci-fi with metaphysical overtones.
1
This is no time for wasting weeks with milliners and mantua makers.
2
Meanwhile all Claudia Merlin's time was taken up with milliners, mantua makers, and jewelers.
3
A few of them had their Sunday dresses made by fashionable mantua makers in Washington.
4
To-morrow morning I shall send for milliners and mantua makers, so that they may want for nothing.
5
So many birth-day suits were countermanded the next day, that most of the tailors and mantua makers discharged all their journeymen and women.
Usage of dressmaker in English
1
Helen Cresswell stood there radiant; the dressmaker, too, was wreathed in smiles.
2
The materials were oriental; the cut was the dressmaker's-nothome-built, as usual.
3
Mrs. Whitney had rented two rooms in the house to a dressmaker.
4
All this was before the dressmaker, who listened with no particular interest.
5
She went to the dressmaker and touched her tragically on the arm.
6
He had always paid the baker, the butcher, the tailor, the dressmaker.
7
But madame was paying little heed to the gossip of the dressmaker.
8
Upstairs Mrs. Hildreth and Isabelle were in solemn consultation with a dressmaker.
9
I told them I was going to Leyland to see the dressmaker.
10
Her two older brothers were both policemen; her sister was a dressmaker.
11
My wife used to employ her as a dressmaker by the day.
12
When I arrived here this morning, I told her the dressmaker story.
13
Miss Politt, the dressmaker, lived in the rooms over the post office.
14
She was blithe as dawn, while the dressmaker was gloomy as night.
15
He let her pose him and twist him like a dressmaker's dummy.
16
She was apprenticed to a dressmaker and engaged to a young tin-smith.
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Translations for dressmaker
Portuguese
Dressmaker through the time
Dressmaker across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Rare