couture

(kū-tʊr', -tür')
n.

1. The business of designing, making, and selling highly fashionable, usually custom-made clothing for women.
2. Dressmakers and fashion designers considered as a group.
3. The high-fashion clothing created by designers.

[French, sewing, from Old French cousture, from Vulgar Latin *cōnsūtūra, from Latin cōnsuere, cōnsūt-, to sew together : com-, com- + suere, to sew.]

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - modedesign

Nederlands (Dutch)
haute couture

Français (French)
n. - couture

Deutsch (German)
n. - Couture, Haute Couture, (für die Mode tonangebende Schneiderkunst)

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - ραπτική, μοδιστρική

Italiano (Italian)
alta moda

Português (Portuguese)
n. - alta costura (f)

idioms:

• haute couture    ateliê (m) de alta costura

Русский (Russian)
мода

idioms:

• haute couture    высокая мода

Español (Spanish)
n. - alta costura

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - modeskapande

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
女装设计师, 女装店

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 女裝設計師, 女裝店

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 양재업, 양재업가

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 婦人服飾業, ドレスメーカー

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) تصميم أو ابتكار الأزياء, فن الخياطه الرفيعه‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮חייטות אופנה, הלבשה‬

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