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

From the Duke of Hastings to Daphne to the modiste, each character harbors their own secrets.

From Los Angeles Times

If I couldn’t make a living breaking horses, I could always be a modiste.

From The Verge

Indeed, though The Modist, the name of Ms. Guenez’s website, is a clear nod to “modest,” it also denotes a “modiste,” a fashionable milliner or dressmaker.

From New York Times

Soon after Lincoln was elected, Mrs. Keckley became personal modiste to the troubled first lady.

From New York Times