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

In 1923, he married Miss Frances Beiger, modiste, who divorced him recently.

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