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Dozens of young women of striking deportment and peculiar gait paraded before Winifred and Imogen, draped in 'creations. The models 'Very new, modom; quite the latest thing which those two reluctantly turned down, would have filled a museum; the models which they were obliged to have nearly emptied James' bank.
John Galsworthy - The Forsyte Saga - Complete

Far be it from me, however, to class all shopping in London under the head of dry goods, or the rage one gets into with every dressmaker. Take for instance, Jay's, or Lewis and Allenby's. The instant you stop before the smallest object a saleswoman approaches and says, "Good morning." You say, "What a very pretty parasol!" and she replies, "It is pretty, isn't it, modom?"
Lilian Bell - Abroad with the Jimmies

Dozens of young women of striking deportment and peculiar gait paraded before Winifred and Imogen, draped in 'creations. The models 'Very new, modom; quite the latest thing which those two reluctantly turned down, would have filled a museum; the models which they were obliged to have nearly emptied James' bank.
John Galsworthy - The Forsyte Saga, Volume II. : Indian Summer of a Forsyte : In Chancery
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