Word | couturier |
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Definition | n. A fashion designer who makes clothes tailored for a specific client. |
Sentence | Rosenberg recognized that the “alienation of the artist,” academics’ contempt for colleagues who write for “the general reader,” the loathing of couturiers for retailers who copy and mass-market their designs, are all of a piece. |
Source | The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes, Jonathan Rose |
Tags: language::english, topic::vocabulary
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