Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A follower of the mode or fashion.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who follows the fashion.
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- noun archaic A
follower offashion .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Because we all know that men in comics have realistic body types and modist costumes.
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Yet she is cautious, and modist about discovering of it.
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"She'd be too sorter modist-like to tell me if she was sot on any perticler thing about the new place," he confided wistfully to Amarilly,
Amarilly of Clothes-line Alley Belle Kanaris Maniates
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Besides I was on gard last nite an my brains seem to be dead today. as always modist
"Same old Bill, eh Mable!" Edward Streeter 1933
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Quid modist ductando, amando? numquamne expleri potes? modo remisisti, continuo iam ut remittam ad te rogas.
Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives Titus Maccius Plautus 1919
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She was swathed in many skirts, her shoulders enveloped by a neutral-tinted shawl, and upon her head was a modist toque of light straw, garlanded with pink roses.
Somewhere in Red Gap Harry Leon Wilson 1903
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Being dressed in woman's clothing she is taller than ever, and so holds her chin and her eyes that it makes any modist woman mad.
His Grace of Osmonde Being the Portions of That Nobleman's Life Omitted in the Relation of His Lady's Story Presented to the World of Fashion under the Title of A Lady of Quality Frances Hodgson Burnett 1886
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Lady Maddon (she is the slender, graceful buty who is called the 'Willow Wand' by the gentlemen who are her servants) -- she saith that this girl is a coarse thing and has so little modisty that she is proud to show her legs, thinking men will admire them, but she is mistaken, for gentlemen like a modist woman who is slight and delicate.
His Grace of Osmonde Being the Portions of That Nobleman's Life Omitted in the Relation of His Lady's Story Presented to the World of Fashion under the Title of A Lady of Quality Frances Hodgson Burnett 1886
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She is a pretty chit and will be the languishing kind, like the die-away Maddon who is so 'modist.'
His Grace of Osmonde Being the Portions of That Nobleman's Life Omitted in the Relation of His Lady's Story Presented to the World of Fashion under the Title of A Lady of Quality Frances Hodgson Burnett 1886
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Look at his swate, modist face -- a blushin 'like your own, miss.
Drift from Two Shores Bret Harte 1869
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