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

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Usage examples (27)
  • When the window-dresser quit, Ms. Price asked for the job.
  • He was also a window-dresser, and he had a client who was a Chinese guy who ran a department store on Canal Street, and I remember going down there — this was around...
  • Baum was an actor, producer, salesman, pitchman, entrepreneur, window-dresser, purveyor of popular but critically ignored stories under a half-dozen different...
  • The chemistry between Rhoda and Joe was immediate and vital, as it had to be, because millions of Americans had spent Saturday nights during the previous four years watching...
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