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Meanings of modiste in English
Portuguese
chapeleiro Catalan
capeller 
Synonyms
Examples for "milliner"
Examples for "milliner"
1
Sometimes, the milliner and the jeweller are at the bottom of it.
2
But I only got six francs; my milliner had all the rest.
3
It may be a cast-back to the principles of the milliner mother.
4
It's probably their way of taking their hats off to the milliner.
5
The milliner would have it there was nothing beside that fitted me.
1
Its current owner, Sir Percival Aspern, had been a hatter by trade.
2
Then he went to the shoemaker, to the hatter, to the haberdasher.
3
He'd actually become a hatter purely because of the association with madness.
4
Andrea had long loved her, but the hatter clung outrageously to life.
5
I retreat to my hotel; send for boot-maker, hatter, tailor, and hair-cutter.
1
No hatmaker in the colonies may have more than two apprentices at once.
2
She had been a hatmaker in a village near his birthplace-Montauban.
3
In one recess Leybl the hatmaker's poker-stiff dog Ashmodai awaited the spring thaw for its burial.
4
First the blacksmith and now the hatmaker.
5
A psychotic hatmaker poisoned by mercury.
Person who makes or sells women's clothing, especially dresses or hats.
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Usage of modiste in English
1
He had now uncovered the slight figure of the little French modiste.
2
The ragdealer's daughter, Justa by name, was a modiste in a shop.
3
This wonderful modiste, whose taste in modes was exquisite, was Mademoiselle Bertin.
4
From her condition, a modiste cannot dispense with being amiable, gracious, engaging.
5
When they came out of the milliner's or modiste's, Fred was waiting.
6
The set showed the elaborately fitted establishment of a fashionable modiste.
7
They find the modiste, who inspects her new customers and is all suavity.
8
He still thought she meant she was not the modiste, just her errand-girl.
9
He thought she was the little errand-girl from Madam Bailey's modiste.
10
How many of the peasant dresses have given an idea to the modiste!
11
His father was an electrician and his mother was a modiste.
12
I want to start my modiste in good time to catch the home-coming people.
13
Before attempting to appear at Court, the American woman should consult a reliable modiste.
14
Your majesty would receive a modiste in your reception room!
15
A fashionable modiste should be consulted in the emergency.
16
DORCAS, a modiste who founded the church gossip societies.
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