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Mercer vs Modiste - What's the difference?

mercer | modiste |

As a proper noun mercer

is .

As a noun modiste is

a person who makes or sells fashionable women's clothing, especially dresses or hats.

mercer

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A merchant dealing in fabrics and textiles, especially silks and other fine cloths.
  • * 1600, Ben Jonson, Cynthia's Revels
    • ... Acolastus-Polypragmon-Asotus, is here present (by the help of his mercer , tailor, milliner, sempster, and so forth) at his designed hour...
  • * 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses
    • He passed, dallying, the windows of Brown Thomas, silk mercers .
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    modiste

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person who makes or sells fashionable women's clothing, especially dresses or hats.
  • * 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.
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