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modiste - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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Noun

modiste (plural modistes)

• A person who makes or sells fashionable women’s clothing, especially dresses or hats. [from 19th c.]
  • ✤ All the colours of the rainbow, materialised by modistes, were there.¹
  • ✤ Her dresses – about 150 each year – are made by Rose Bertin, an expensive but necessary modiste with premises on the rue Saint-Honoré.²

Etymology

From French modiste. Compare modist.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /məʊˈdiːst/
• Rhymes: -iːst

Printed 2026-06-28.

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Footnotes

1. 1911, Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson: ↩

2. 1992, Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety, Harper Perennial, published 2007, page 46: ↩

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