modiste

English

Etymology

From French modiste. Compare modist.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /məʊˈdiːst/
  • Rhymes: -iːst

Noun

modiste (plural modistes)

  1. 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.

Anagrams

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French modiste.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /moːˈdist/, /ˌmoːˈdɪs.tə/
  • (file)
  • Hyphenation: mo‧dis‧te

Noun

modiste f (plural modistes)

  1. (dated) A fashion saleswoman, a female modiste.

Descendants

  • Indonesian: modiste

French

Etymology

From mode + -iste.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mɔ.dist/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ist

Noun

modiste m or f by sense (plural modistes)

  1. modiste; milliner

Further reading

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch modiste, from French modiste.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [moˈdɪstə]
  • Hyphenation: mo‧dis‧tê

Noun

modiste or modistê

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

Further reading

Italian

Noun

modiste f

  1. plural of modista

Anagrams

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