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/məʊˈdiːst/ · noun
A person who makes or sells fashionable women's clothing, especially dresses or hats..
All the colours of the rainbow, materialised by modistes, were there.
Her dresses – about 150 each year – are made by Rose Bertin, an expensive but necessary modiste with premises on the rue Saint-Honoré.
Use modiste when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Modiste means A person who makes or sells fashionable women's clothing, especially dresses or hats..
Common synonyms include seamstress, dressmaker, needlewoman, sempstress.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
All the colours of the rainbow, materialised by modistes, were there.
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