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modiste ‎(plural modistes)

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.

From mode +‎ -iste.

modiste m ‎(plural modistes)

modiste f