modiste
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With a sentence, she can send customers to the modiste or suitors away from annoying Cressida Cowper.
From Salon ● Apr. 5, 2022
From the Duke of Hastings to Daphne to the modiste, each character harbors their own secrets.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 15, 2021
If I couldn’t make a living breaking horses, I could always be a modiste.
From The Verge ● Mar. 1, 2018
The Parisian-born son of a modiste, Bohan broke into haute couture in 1945 as an assistant designer at Patou, left Patou in 1958 to work under Dior's Boy Wonder Chief Designer Yves St. Laurent.
From Time Magazine Archive
Being limited in materials, due to shortages and rationing, she used a gorgeous sunset-colored wool that she had unraveled from a suit tailored for her by Ormaie’s most expensive modiste in 1912.
From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein
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
They fight to order 5,000 franc hats at the leading Parisian modistes and roll around the town in horse cabs at 500 francs a course, lest they be mobbed by indignant crowds in the subway.
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
Apparently the modistes have resolved that this shall be a butcher's year, for we are promised leg-of-mutton sleeves, ham-frill skirts, and pork-pie hats.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, May 6, 1914 by Sir Owen Seaman
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