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vendeuse

American  
[vahn-dœz] / vɑ̃ˈdœz /

noun

French.
  • vendeuses
    plural
  1. a female shop assistant; shopgirl.


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Each buyer has her personal vendeuse, each vendeuse her jealously guarded clients.

From Time Magazine Archive

The vendeuse clucked her admiration of such courage.

From Time Magazine Archive

She was suddenly interrupted with a scream from the vendeuse: "But darling, you're wearing it back to front!"

From Time Magazine Archive

"When they hesitate, I always advise them to buy elsewhere," says Dior's chief vendeuse.

From Time Magazine Archive

The former was as grotesque a type of the jolly old vendeuse of Paris as it would be possible to find.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875 by Various

The vendeuses, as chic as their Parisian counterparts, once included young Angela Lansbury.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 14, 2021

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.

From Time Magazine Archive

Harried vendeuses in black elbow hip-swinging models about.

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Black-clad vendeuses -- all pretty, some titled -- were bringing gorgeous garments out to clients.

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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

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