modiste

With a sentence, she can send customers to the modiste or suitors away from annoying Cressida Cowper.

From the Duke of Hastings to Daphne to the modiste, each character harbors their own secrets.

Being limited in materials, due to shortages and rationing, she used a gorgeous sunset-colored wool that she had unraveled from a suit tailored for her by Ormaie’s most expensive modiste in 1912.

If I couldn’t make a living breaking horses, I could always be a modiste.

Indeed, though The Modist, the name of Ms. Guenez’s website, is a clear nod to “modest,” it also denotes a “modiste,” a fashionable milliner or dressmaker.