The couture Surname
couture Name Meaning and History
- metonymic occupational name for a tailor, from Old French cousture ‘seam’ (Latin consutura, from (con)suere ‘to sew (together)’).
- metonymic occupational name for a holder of a smallholding, Old French couture ‘small plot’, ‘kitchen garden’ (Late Latin cultura, in classical Latin used in the abstract sense ‘cultivation’, ‘agriculture’, from colere ‘to till or tend’).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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