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corsetiere en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /-sɛ-/ (US)
• /ˌkɔːsɛtɪˈɛə/ (UK)
• /-sɪ-/ (US)
• /kɔːˌsɛt-/ (UK)
• /ˌkoɹ.səˈtjɛɹ/ (US)
• /-ˈtɪɹ/ (US)

Etymology

From French corsetière.

Meanings

1. A female corsetmaker, or a woman in a shop who fits corsets.
   • 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. 2009 May 17, Kathryn Shattuck, “Chamber’s Master, Leaving the Building”, in New York Times:

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