modiste

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Modiste and "Kiss Me Again" came in 1905 and brought her greatest fame.

From Time Magazine Archive

Myself when slim did eagerly frequent Delsarte and Ling, and heard great Argument Of muscles trained to Hold me up, but still Spent on my Modiste what I'd always spent!

From The Home Book of Verse — Volume 4 by Stevenson, Burton Egbert

Aye, and her Modiste is, perchance, the clue, Could you but know it, to her sylph-like grace, And, peradventure, to her Figure, too.

From The Rubáiyát of a Bachelor by Rowland, Helen

But try it on first: and then you can at least please yourself, if not the Terrible Modiste who now writes to you. 

From Letters of Edward FitzGerald to Fanny Kemble (1871-1883) by Wright, William Aldis

She herself had been completely captivated by the costume when Madame Modiste had first suggested it, and when the first fittings began.

From The Beloved Woman by Norris, Kathleen Thompson