vendeuse
Americannoun
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vendeuses
plural
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The vendeuse led the way to a dressing room.
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
Then behind a jet of vaporous breath appeared a vendeuse, rubbing her hands, the national gesture of this winter.
From Time Magazine Archive
Each buyer has her personal vendeuse, each vendeuse her jealously guarded clients.
From Time Magazine Archive
Patterns were discussed in hushed but intense undertones, faint but all-important modifications were offered by the vendeuse to bridge the gulf between the figures of the mannequins and those of the clients.
From Balloons by Elizabeth Bibesco
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
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
Black-clad vendeuses -- all pretty, some titled -- were bringing gorgeous garments out to clients.
From Time Magazine Archive
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.
From Time Magazine Archive
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