‖ modiste
(mɔdist)
[Fr., f. mode fashion: see mode n.]
One who makes, invents, or deals in articles of fashion; esp. a maker of ladies robes, millinery, etc.; a milliner, dress-maker.
| c 1840 Lady Wilton Art of Needlework xiii. 188 Mercers and milliners, haberdashers and modistes. 1852 Smedley L. Arundel xxxvi, Fashioned..by an ingenious Parisian modiste. 1880 Disraeli Endym. xvi, 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. 1936 G. Greene Gun For Sale i. 13 He leant his face against a modiste's window and jeered silently through the glass. |