Associations to the word «Modiste»

Wiktionary

MODISTE, noun. A person who makes or sells fashionable women's clothing, especially dresses or hats.

Dictionary definition

MODISTE, noun. Someone who makes and sells hats.
MODISTE, noun. Someone who makes or mends dresses.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne