modiste
noun
a female maker of or dealer in women's fashionable attire.
modistes
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pluralof modiste.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Supreme and unrivaled in their own fields are Parisian modistes and Hollywood producers.
From Time Magazine Archive
There were pictures of bonnets for milliners, bottles for perfumers and brewers, elephants for circuses, fleeing figures for owners of runaway slaves, corsets for modistes, puffing trains for railroads.
From Time Magazine Archive
Paris modistes were not offended, reflecting that Manhattan still depends on Paris for new models.
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
She passed on, her dress, which had taxed the resources of the first modistes of the day, Rue de la Paix, trailing heedlessly over the priceless Aubusson.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, June 10, 1914 by Sir Owen Seaman
