Definition of "modistes" [modistes]

• Plural form of modiste. (noun)

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• "Jewish women worked as secretaries, clerks, modistes, shopkeepers, salespersons, and market vendors; others held jobs as seamstresses, textile operators, domestic servants, cosmeticians, or other types of workers."
• "You sew better than most of the modistes on Bond Street."
• "She would have been primped and prodded and coiffed by maids and modistes to within an inch of her life."