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Dressmaking

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Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. the craft of making dresses.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. The art, process, or occupation, of making dresses.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. The occupation of a dressmaker.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. the craft of making dresses

Word Usage

"In freeing women from corsets and dissolving the fortified grandeur of the obdurate, hyperbolic silhouette, Poiret effected a concomitant revolution in dressmaking, one that shifted the emphasis away from the skills of tailoring to … the skills of draping."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

craft trade

Hyponym

couture

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

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