vendeuse

• “The vendeuse is in tears.” He seemed not far off them himself and Mr. Campion felt sorry for him. —  The Fashion in Shrouds - Margery Allingham - Campion 10
• I must, of course, remember to be utterly businesslike with the charming vendeuse but no, I did NOT exploit our intimate exchanges during my first visit to build the relationship into —  Telegraph Blogs
• _Madame la vendeuse de café_, I shall remember you for more than a little while. —  The Enormous Room
• The former was as grotesque a type of the jolly old _vendeuse_ of Paris as it would be possible to find. —  Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875
• Through this soft-spoken person, who bears the title _of première vendeuse_, or first saleswoman, the customers are put into communication either with the great artist himself or simply with one of the _premières_, or heads of departments, if their orders are not of sufficient importance to justify an interruption of the great man in his innumerable and absorbing occupations. —  Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885

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