Crossword clues for modiste
modiste
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Modiste \Mo`diste"\, n. [F. See Mode; cf. Modist.] One, esp. a woman, who makes, or deals in, articles of fashion, esp. of the fashionable dress of ladies; a dress-maker or milliner.
Wiktionary
n. A person who makes or sells fashionable women's clothing, especially dresses or hats.
WordNet
n. someone who makes and sells hats [syn: hatmaker, hatter, milliner]
someone who makes or mends dresses [syn: dressmaker, needlewoman, seamstress, sempstress]
Usage examples of "modiste".
Her pale pink walking dress with its matching pelisse had obviously come from a modiste who catered to a wealthy, stylish clientele.
No fashionable London modiste would have dressed a client in such a countrified style.
The modiste turned to Prudence, who was examining a display of buttons.
Alverstoke ball than she declared, looking as mulish as such a lovely, gentle creature could, that she disliked every one of the expensive dresses offered by the fashionable modiste to whose discreetly elegant premises in Bruton Street Alverstoke had directed Frederica.
Even Lady Peasmore was hoaxed, for she told Marianne that there was a certain sort of something to my dress which clearly showed that it had been designed by a modiste of the first stare!
Before she left the cell, Anna remembered a sad chore she had to carry out for Lizzie Keckley, the black modiste who made her dressesand Mrs.
A week ago he would have fled from the very thought of a modiste and her coterie of seamstresses, or fittings.
It seemed to him that Smytheton scowled even more furiously, and the modiste appeared more than scandalized.
She is hardly a French modiste, but with your instruction, I believe she will do for the present.
When the modiste had reminded him hysterically that the Season was about to begin and her seamstresses were all working night and day, Stephen had politely asked her to do the best she could.
Arden was measured this way and that, and the modiste promised several dresses within the week, along with a riding habit to be made up in dark blue velvet.
I wanted the modiste to make my habit with a split skirt so I could ride astride.
Before either of them could think to demur, they were whisked off to a series of fittings with the most sought-after modiste in London, and a selection of open accounts at the finest shops on Bond Street were made available.
Perhaps it had not been the best of ideas to inform the fashionable modiste he had engaged for Aurora that her newest client needed a ball gown fit for a special occasion.
Lydia begged Aunt Ames to come to London to help her select the material for her wedding dress and guide the hands of the modiste who would be entrusted with that exalted task.