noun
modiste
Modiste (noun) means someone whose job is making or selling stylish clothes for women, such as dresses or hats.
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Someone whose job is making or selling stylish clothes for women, such as dresses or hats.
"All the colours of the rainbow, materialised by modistes, were there."
— Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson (1911)
"Her dresses – about 150 each year – are made by Rose Bertin, an expensive but necessary modiste with premises on the rue Saint-Honoré."
— Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety (1992)
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Etymology
Came from French modiste. Compare modist.
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What is the meaning of modiste?
"modiste" (noun) means someone whose job is making or selling stylish clothes for women, such as dresses or hats.
What is another word for modiste?
Other words for "modiste" include seamstress, hatter, milliner, needlewoman, hatmaker, sempstress.
