modiste

Example Sentences

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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