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Definition of haute couture noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

haute couture

noun

/ˌəʊt kuˈtjʊə(r)/

/ˌəʊt kuˈtʊr/

[uncountable] (from French)

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the business of making fashionable and expensive clothes; the clothes made in this business
- the world of haute couture
Topics Clothes and Fashionc2
Word OriginFrench, literally ‘high dressmaking’.

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