modiste
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From French modiste. Compare modist.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
modiste (plural modistes)
- 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[edit]
Dutch[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
modiste f (plural modistes)
- (dated) A fashion saleswoman, a female modiste.
Descendants[edit]
- → Indonesian: modiste
French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
modiste m or f by sense (plural modistes)
Further reading[edit]
- “modiste”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Indonesian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Dutch modiste, from French modiste.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
modiste or modistê
- modiste, a person who makes or sells fashionable women's clothing, especially dresses or hats.
Further reading[edit]
- “modiste” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
Italian[edit]
Noun[edit]
modiste f
Anagrams[edit]
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