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window dresser

noun

  1. a person employed to trim the display windows of a store.


window-dresser

noun

  1. a person employed to design and build up a display in a shop window
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of window dresser1

First recorded in 1860–65
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Example Sentences

Somehow I understood reading the newspaper report that the window dresser had been inspired by what was going on in New York.

Marie Louise turned and came up like a wax image on casters pulled forward by an invisible window-dresser.

To illustrate: A window-dresser is decorating the window in Woolworth's.

The window-dresser was lost again in the bank manager who has arranged a profitable overdraft.

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