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."
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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
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Paris modistes were not offended, reflecting that Manhattan still depends on Paris for new models.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Supreme and unrivaled in their own fields are Parisian modistes and Hollywood producers.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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.
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The New Yorker has more to say about polo and modistes than about multilateral treaties.
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She painted with unusual skill, and the little water-color figures which she sent to her modistes, were real works of art, far superior to those in the fashion journals.
From On the Cross A Romance of the Passion Play at Oberammergau by Wilhelmine von Hillern