vendeuse
Americannoun
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vendeuses
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If she balks at the price, the vendeuse is apt to display a cool hauteur.
From Time Magazine Archive
The vendeuse led the way to a dressing room.
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The vendeuse clucked her admiration of such courage.
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Then behind a jet of vaporous breath appeared a vendeuse, rubbing her hands, the national gesture of this winter.
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The elder vendeuse, who probably knew Lady Grenellen by sight, was green with apprehension that some shocking gaff had been committed.
From The Reflections of Ambrosine A Novel by Elinor Glyn
The vendeuses, as chic as their Parisian counterparts, once included young Angela Lansbury.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 14, 2021
At Maggy Rouff's, Legroux's, Suzanne Talbot's and Vera Borea's, vendeuses said they had deferred this season to American taste.
From Time Magazine Archive
Black-clad vendeuses -- all pretty, some titled -- were bringing gorgeous garments out to clients.
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But others, momentarily unhinged, corral their vendeuses, rush off to a grey-curtained alcove, get out of their street dresses and demand to try on themselves one of the creations they have just seen modeled.
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Then, with a spatter of conventional applause, the audience erupts from the gilt seats and flows down upon the black-clad vendeuses stationed at every step on the stairway.
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