But we got off-and have arrived at MODA; and I think the show of native beauty crowding down the white sand here is even more effective and exquisite than any village crowds we have seen so far on either of the two sides of the river.
"From Edinburgh to India & Burmah"
William G. Burn Murdoch
There are so few travellers that way, that at Orbetello, where we slept, the excitement was intense, the women wishing to examine dress and coiffure, to know the ultima MODA.
"Story of My Life, volumes 1-3"
Augustus J. C. Hare