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• n  someone who makes and sells hats
• n  someone who makes or mends dresses

• In 1923, he married Miss Frances Beiger, modiste, who divorced .
• The Parisian-born son of a modiste, Bohan broke into haute couture in 1945 as an assistant designer at Patou, left Patou in 1958 to work under Dior's Boy Wonder Chief Designer .
• The foremost British man-modiste, Captain Edward Henry Molyneux was commissioned to create Princess Marina's wedding dress, but she had fun in Paris buying much of her .

• hatmaker
• hatter
• milliner
• dressmaker
• needlewoman
• seamstress
• sempstress

News & Articles

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• Eighth-grader aces ‘modiste’ to win News Spelling Bee
  In Andrew Erdman’s family of good spellers, he now holds bragging rights. With a correct spelling of “modiste,” the SS. Peter and Paul, Williamsville, eighth-grader on Sunday outlasted 21 others to win his first appearance in The Buffalo News Spelling Bee.
  March 10, 2014 - The Buffalo News

Quotes

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• André Salmon in Boston Globe
  In 1912, André Salmon, a friend of Picasso, accused Matisse of having "the taste of a modiste," comparing his love of color to "a love of chiffon."