modiste

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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

Parisienne′.—Paris doll, a small figure dressed in the latest fashions, sent out by Paris modistes.

From Project Gutenberg

Ah, but you see some of these sensible inventions come from the brain of a fashionable modiste, who will make you lovely, or what you value more,—'stylish' outside and comfortable within.

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