bespoke
adjective
designing clothes for particular customers
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noun
a type of fashion that was first popular in the 1980s, in which people have black clothes, black hair, very white make-up and dark lipstick
noun
expensive and fashionable clothes, or the business of designing and making them. Someone who makes or sells these clothes is a haute couturier.
noun
someone whose job is to wear and show new styles of clothes made by fashion designers
noun
someone whose job is to show clothes, make-up etc by wearing them at fashion shows or in magazine photographs
verb
to show clothes by wearing them at fashion shows, in magazine photographs etc, especially as a job
an American spelling of modelling
a speech habit in which a speaker lowers their voice at the end of a sentence
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a mineral which is mined in a place where there is armed conflict, and sold to help pay for weapons
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