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   cou·ture

   /ko͞oˈto͝or/

   noun

   • 1. the design and manufacture of fashionable clothes to a client's specific requirements and measurements: "designer ready-to-wear has taken over from couture as the focus of interest"
   • ▪ fashionable made-to-measure clothes: "they were dressed in size eight printed-silk couture"

   Word Origin 1920s: French, ‘sewing, dressmaking’.

   Scrabble Points: 9

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