modiste
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /məʊˈdiːst/
- Rhymes: -iːst
Noun
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, published 2007, page 46:
- Her dresses – about 150 each year – are made by Rose Bertin, an expensive but necessary modiste with premises on the rue Saint-Honoré.
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /moːˈdist/, /ˌmoːˈdɪs.tə/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: mo‧dis‧te
Descendants
- → Indonesian: modiste
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mɔ.dist/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -ist
Further reading
- “modiste”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Indonesian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [moˈdɪstə]
- Hyphenation: mo‧dis‧tê
Noun
modiste or modistê
- modiste, a person who makes or sells fashionable women's clothing, especially dresses or hats.
Further reading
- “modiste” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
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