modiste
English
Etymology
From French modiste. Compare modist.
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 2007, p. 46:
- Her dresses – about 150 each year – are made by Rose Bertin, an expensive but necessary modiste with premises on the rue Saint-Honoré.
- 1911, Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson:
Anagrams
- mediots, mitosed, moisted
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from French modiste.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /moːˈdist/, /ˌmoːˈdɪs.tə/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: mo‧dis‧te
Noun
modiste f (plural modistes)
- (dated) A fashion saleswoman, a female modiste.
Descendants
- → Indonesian: modiste
French
Etymology
From mode + -iste.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mɔ.dist/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -ist
Noun
modiste m (plural modistes)
- modiste; milliner
Further reading
- “modiste”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Indonesian
Etymology
From Dutch modiste, from French modiste.
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: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
Italian
Noun
modiste f
- plural of modista
Anagrams
- Modesti, modesti