window dresser

noun

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

window-dresser

noun

1. a person employed to design and build up a display in a shop window

Word History and Origins

Origin of window dresser¹

First recorded in 1860–65

Example Sentences

After graduation, she moved to London, where she worked as a window dresser.

From Salon

Instead she worked as a counter assistant in a chemist and as a window dresser before focussing on raising her family.

From BBC

She got kicked out of a succession of schools, then married an openly gay window dresser named John Parker at the age of 19 — a marriage that was, unsurprisingly, short-lived.

From Los Angeles Times

“I can channel the artistry as the window dresser Molina and exude the seductive allure of his muse and tormentor the Spider Woman and honor the diva saviors of my youth: Chita, Conchita and Vanessa!”

From Los Angeles Times

There was a time in the early 1980s, she once recalled, when she found herself sprinting across the street to a neighboring specialty store and accosting a young window dresser.

From New York Times