Word: modistas
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...under the Quarantine Officers who are just as diligent against "white slavers" as they are against yellow fever and bubonic plague, and the records at Cristobal show that last year (I quote from a note from the Quarantine Officer, Dr. C. A. Hearne) there were deported "26 modistes or modistas and 18 of the kind of men who accompany such women." The profession of dressmaker, "modiste" for the French, and "modista" for the Spanish, has been claimed so often by these women that the word has been taken into the language locally as having, in a more limited degree...
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