couturiere

couturiere (plural couturieres)

1. Alternative form of couturière
   • 1989, Elaine Sima, Sherrill Bodine, The Rake’s Redemption, Diversion Books, published 2013, →ISBN:

     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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

     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.”

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

     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.