Last name COUTURE: origin and meaning

Couture : French:: 1: metonymic occupational name for a holder of a smallholding from Old French couture ‘small plot kitchen garden’ from Late Latin cultura in classical Latin used in the abstract sense ‘cultivation agriculture’ (from colere ‘to till or tend’).2: habitational name from (La) Couture the name of several places in various parts of France corresponding to Late Latin cultura (see 1 above).3: metonymic occupational name for a tailor from Old French cousture ‘seam’ from Latin consutura from (con)suere ‘to sew (together)’. Compare Cutcher.

Source : DAFN2 : Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, ©2022 by Patrick Hanks and Oxford University Press