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modistes

modistes is the plural of modiste.

Meaning of modiste

Noun

modiste (plural modistes)

  1. 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.1911, Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson

Questions about modistes

What is modistes the plural of?
Modistes is the plural of modiste.

Words near modistes in the dictionary

  1. modism
  2. modisms
  3. modist
  4. Modistae
  5. modiste
  6. modistes
  7. modistry
  8. modists
  9. modius
  10. modiwarp
  11. modiwarps

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Adapted from Wiktionary: modistes (page history and authors); modiste (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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