corsetiere

See also: corsetière

English

Etymology

From French corsetière.

Noun

corsetiere (plural corsetieres)

  1. A female corsetmaker, or a woman in a shop who fits corsets.
    • 2009 May 17, Kathryn Shattuck, “Chamber’s Master, Leaving the Building”, in New York Times‎:
      Mr. Wadsworth grew up in Newnan, where his father tended produce in a grocery store, and his mother cinched in the town’s women as a corsetiere in a clothing shop, her young son often watching from the dressing-room corner.
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