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Modiste vs Modist - What's the difference?

modiste | modist |

As nouns the difference between modiste and modist

is that modiste is a person who makes or sells fashionable women's clothing, especially dresses or hats while modist is (archaic) a follower of fashion.

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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    modist

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (archaic) A follower of fashion.
    • (Webster 1913)