couture

Từ điển American Heritage Dictionary 4th

cou·ture (ko͞o-to͝orʹ, -türʹ)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; See syū- in Indo-European Roots.]