modistes
- plural of modiste.
Example Sentences
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The New Yorker has more to say about polo and modistes than about multilateral treaties.
From Time Magazine Archive
They fight to order 5,000 franc hats at the leading Parisian modistes and roll around the town in horse cabs at 500 francs a course, lest they be mobbed by indignant crowds in the subway.
From Time Magazine Archive
Supreme and unrivaled in their own fields are Parisian modistes and Hollywood producers.
From Time Magazine Archive
Last week he was greeted with a law suit; two Manhattan modistes demanded that he pay them $1,121 for his daughter's trousseau��a bill which has been due for more than a year.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the fifties the modistes of Paris, whose word, however absurd, was law to the women of the civilized world, sent out the famous hoopskirt.
From The Women of the Confederacy by Underwood, J. L.
