单词 | modiste |
释义 | modisten. A person who designs, makes, or sells fashionable articles of clothing for women; a fashionable dressmaker or milliner. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > tailoring or making clothes > [noun] > carrying out specific processes > design > designer fashioner1631 modiste1802 couturière1818 modist1852 creator1901 fashion-designer1909 the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > tailoring or making clothes > dressmaking > [noun] > fashionable dressmaking > dressmaker modiste1802 couturière1818 modist1852 1802 Times 15 Dec. 3/2 The rose returned to favour with the Modistes. Orange colour is also frequently worn. 1840 Knickerbocker 15 387 ‘Modestes’ made frocks and bonnets of the freshest patterns, for the girls. 1852 F. E. Smedley Lewis Arundel xxxvi Fashioned..by an ingenious Parisian modiste. 1880 B. Disraeli Endymion I. xvi. 129 The days of the great modistes, when an English lady might absolutely be dressed in London. 1903 Speaker 7 Feb. 465/2 The modiste and the governess had fallen foul of each other. 1920 C. Sandburg Compl. Poems (1970) 247 After you have spent all the money modistes and manicures and mannikins will take for fixing you over into a thing the people call proud and beautiful. 1936 G. Greene Gun for Sale i. 13 He leant his face against a modiste's window and jeered silently through the glass. 1986 D. Arkell Alain-Fournier vii. 111 Jeanne..worked precariously as a freelance modiste, making hats. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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