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Definition of Modist
1. n. One who follows the fashion.
Definition of Modist
1. Noun. (archaic) A follower of fashion. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Modist
1. a follower of fashion [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Modist
Literary usage of Modist
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1827)
"A modist COMMENDATION OP COCK-FIGHTING. ThU beat» cock-fighting. I have been led
to these reflections by the perusal of some old and scarce tracts in the ..."
2. Publications by William Shakespeare, New Shakspere Society (London, England) (1885)
"Wrangling Lovers. ( Othello the Moor of Venice. And the modist Lovers . . / Six
Comedies and Tragedies (t«.) Wrangling Lovers. ..."
3. England and the English by Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton (1836)
"A PHILOSOPHIC modist. ... modist, aged twenty years, living Rue du Faubourg St.
Martin, had contracted the bad habit of play. Gay and pretty, she had many ..."
4. Beauty and Art by John Aldam Heaton (1897)
"The modist has become an upholsterer, the upholsterer a modist> and the occupant
of the house a dummy to show off their productions. ..."
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