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Definition of modiste in English: modistenoun mɒˈdiːstmoʊˈdist dated A fashionable milliner or dressmaker. Example sentencesExamples - It's the sort of city where a burglar, a banker, a taxi-driver, an academician, a modiste, and a pushcart vendor might all fetch up together in a corner banquette at the end of the night.
- Then find me a competent man of affairs along with a modiste and a personal maid from one of the agencies.
- Her title-page identifies her as ‘formerly a slave, but more recently modiste, and friend to Mrs. Abraham Lincoln,’ thus indicating a certain progression - from chattel, to employee, to friend.
- Mocking her endeavors as author and modiste, the parody echoes the language common to nineteenth-century advertisement with the words ‘Publishers and ladies please take notice.’
- Of course, I've been with my modiste - this year's hats are so bewitching!
Origin Mid 19th century: French, from mode 'fashion'. Rhymes arriviste, artiste, batiste, beast, dirigiste, east, feast, least, Mideast, northeast, piste, priest, southeast, uncreased, unreleased, yeast Definition of modiste in US English: modistenounmoʊˈdistmōˈdēst dated A fashionable milliner or dressmaker. Example sentencesExamples - Of course, I've been with my modiste - this year's hats are so bewitching!
- Her title-page identifies her as ‘formerly a slave, but more recently modiste, and friend to Mrs. Abraham Lincoln,’ thus indicating a certain progression - from chattel, to employee, to friend.
- It's the sort of city where a burglar, a banker, a taxi-driver, an academician, a modiste, and a pushcart vendor might all fetch up together in a corner banquette at the end of the night.
- Mocking her endeavors as author and modiste, the parody echoes the language common to nineteenth-century advertisement with the words ‘Publishers and ladies please take notice.’
- Then find me a competent man of affairs along with a modiste and a personal maid from one of the agencies.
Origin Mid 19th century: French, from mode ‘fashion’. |