Entry: couture (n.)
In context: "...internal Froxx CD-ROM, electronic couture, all-in-one consoles..."
Definition:Fashionable dressmaking or design; used as a collective term for the designers or makers of women's fashionable clothes, esp. in Paris; also, the clothes made by them. So (la) haute couture : high fashion; the fashionable world; the leading dressmakers and dressmaking establishments collectively. Also attrib
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Page: 620
Source: Oxford English Dictionary
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