Noun: haute couture
Sample Sentences
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But there are, unquestionably, parts of the clothes conversation that are less accessible than others. Most notably, the haute couture. [2018 June 30, Vanessa Friedman, “Why We Cover High Fashion”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:]
Nouns inflected like haute couture
greyware,
chronotropy,
urgrund,
cytosorting,
homekeeping,
pedobaiting,
winterdress,
JLNS,
rumpology,
hopkinsiaxanthin,
enchylemma,
further education,
hexobendine,
humdrumminess,
unobligingness,
backscroll,
telocinobufagin,
dosulepin,
mensuralism,
crème de framboise, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from French haute couture (“haute couture, high fashion”), from haute (“high, elegant”) + couture (“sewing”).