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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Paris modistes were not offended, reflecting that Manhattan still depends on Paris for new models.
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
The New Yorker has more to say about polo and modistes than about multilateral treaties.
From Time Magazine Archive
Supreme and unrivaled in their own fields are Parisian modistes and Hollywood producers.
From Time Magazine Archive
The “spring opening” of the great classes of birds and animals is none the less interesting because its styles are not set by Parisian modistes.
From The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year by William Beebe
