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modiste

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What does modiste mean?

noun

  1. A person who makes or sells fashionable women's clothing, especially dresses or hats.

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On emerging from the theatre, he refused to look at the garter of a modiste who was stepping across a gutter, and Courfeyrac, who said: “I should like to put that woman in my collection,” almost horrified him.
Victor HugoLes MisérablesTranslated by Isabel Florence HapgoodProject Gutenberg ebook #135