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
They were married "privately" in the sense that Moses Cohen's apartment is above a restaurant and a modiste shop and all Moses Cohen's window curtains were tightly drawn "because of the heat."
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
Paris modistes were not offended, reflecting that Manhattan still depends on Paris for new models.
From Time Magazine Archive
The New Yorker has more to say about polo and modistes than about multilateral treaties.
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
Supreme and unrivaled in their own fields are Parisian modistes and Hollywood producers.
From Time Magazine Archive
He went to all the best modistes in Paris and said he'd give—well, I'm ashamed to tell you what he gave—if they would make him models all trimmed up, heavy and expensive with handsome trimmings.
From Home Fires in France by Canfield, Dorothy
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