modiste

From French modiste. Compare modist.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /məʊˈdiːst/

modiste (plural modistes)

1. 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 2007, p. 46:

     Her dresses – about 150 each year – are made by Rose Bertin, an expensive but necessary modiste with premises on the rue Saint-Honoré.

• mitosed, moisted

From mode +‎ -iste.

• IPA^(key): /mɔdist/

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modiste m (plural modistes)

1. modiste; milliner

• “modiste” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

modiste f

1. plural of modista

• modesti