modiste

English

Etymology

From French modiste. Compare modist.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

modiste (plural modistes)

1. A person who makes or sells fashionable women's clothing, especially dresses or hats. [from 19th c.]
   • 1911, Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson:

     All the colours of the rainbow, materialised by modistes, were there.

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

     Her dresses – about 150 each year – are made by Rose Bertin, an expensive but necessary modiste with premises on the rue Saint-Honoré.

Anagrams

• mediots, mitosed, moisted

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French modiste.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /moːˈdist/, /ˌmoːˈdɪs.tə/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: mo‧dis‧te

Noun

modiste f (plural modistes)

1. (dated) A fashion saleswoman, a female modiste.

Descendants

• → Indonesian: modiste

French

Etymology

From mode +‎ -iste.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɔ.dist/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ist

Noun

modiste m or f by sense (plural modistes)

1. modiste; milliner

Further reading

• “modiste”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch modiste, from French modiste.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [moˈdɪstə]
• Hyphenation: mo‧dis‧tê

Noun

modiste or modistê

1. modiste, a person who makes or sells fashionable women's clothing, especially dresses or hats.

Further reading

• “modiste” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Italian

Noun

modiste f

1. plural of modista

Anagrams

• Modesti, modesti