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  • noun Plural form of modiste.

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Examples

  • You sew better than most of the modistes on Bond Street.

    The Laird Who Loved Me Karen Hawkins 2009

  • You sew better than most of the modistes on Bond Street.

    The Laird Who Loved Me Karen Hawkins 2009

  • You sew better than most of the modistes on Bond Street.

    The Laird Who Loved Me Karen Hawkins 2009

  • Jewish women worked as secretaries, clerks, modistes, shopkeepers, salespersons, and market vendors; others held jobs as seamstresses, textile operators, domestic servants, cosmeticians, or other types of workers.

    Yugoslavia. 2009

  • She would have been primped and prodded and coiffed by maids and modistes to within an inch of her life.

    Naughty or Nice MELANIE GEORGE 2004

  • She would have been primped and prodded and coiffed by maids and modistes to within an inch of her life.

    Naughty or Nice MELANIE GEORGE 2004

  • She would have been primped and prodded and coiffed by maids and modistes to within an inch of her life.

    Naughty or Nice MELANIE GEORGE 2004

  • He would not, after all, have to accompany the girls to modistes and milliners and shoemakers, and all the rest.

    Irresistible Balogh, Mary 1998

  • But invitations started to arrive, and appointments had been made with various modistes so that the ladies could be suitably outfitted for what lay ahead, especially for their presentation at court.

    Irresistible Balogh, Mary 1998

  • As, after four years 'absence from London, none of the gowns Sophie currently possessed could be considered presentable, she was as much in need of the modistes as Clarissa.

    A Lady of Expectations Laurens, Stephanie 1995

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