haute couture
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noun
1.
high fashion; the most fashionable and influential dressmaking and designing.
2.
the fashions so created.
3.
the leading dressmaking establishments in the world of fashion, considered collectively.
Origin:
< French
< French
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| —n | |
| high fashion | |
| [literally: high dressmaking] | |
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Example sentences
Another fashion faux pas is tarnishing the awards season's haute couture reputation.
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The ageing haute couture guru expressed disillusionment with today's more commercial fashion industry.
So are prints and posters, often more so than haute couture.
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