modiste

[ moh-deest; French maw-deest ]

/ moʊˈdist; French mɔˈdist /

Older Use. a female maker of or dealer in women's fashionable attire.

Origin of modiste

From French, dating back to 1830–40; see origin at mode², -ist

modify, modigliani, modillion, modiolus, modish, modiste, modjeska, modoc, modock wool, modred, mods

We shared the same manicurist, milliner, modiste, and coiffeur.

Memoirs of a Midget |Walter de la Mare
The taxi turned again at the north end of the square, and, a door away, stopped before what seemed to be a row of modiste's shops.

Find the Woman |Arthur Somers Roche
Twenty thousand francs were due to the modiste, thirty thousand to the linen draper, twelve thousand to the bootmaker.

Nana, The Miller's Daughter, Captain Burle, Death of Olivier Becaille |Emile Zola
So-and-so was a modiste from Paris, or that M. Brugger was a bootmaker "of the first force" from Vienna.

The British Expedition to the Crimea |William Howard Russell

But when the brief solace afforded them by the modiste and dressmaker was past, there seemed little else to be gained.

Devil's Ford |Bret Harte

modiste

/ (məʊˈdiːst) /

a fashionable dressmaker or milliner

C19: from French, from mode fashion