Milliner

Quick meaning: Milliner is a noun meaning (specifically) A person involved in the design, manufacture, or sale of hats for women.

Meaning

(specifically) A person involved in the design, manufacture, or sale of hats for women.

More Meanings

1. To manufacture (women's apparel, specifically hats); also, to supply (someone) with women's apparel, specifically hats.
2. (figurative) To adorn or decorate (something).
3. (archaic) A person who sells (women's) apparel, accessories, and other decorative goods, especially those originally manufactured in Milan.

Example Sentences

He hath ſongs for man, or vvoman, of all ſizes: No Milliner can ſo fit his cuſtomers vvith Gloues: […]

Milliners, toymen, and jewellers came down from London [to Tunbridge Wells], and opened a bazaar under the trees.

She is at present apprenticed, Miss Mowcher, or articled, or whatever it may be, to Omer and Joram, Haberdashers, Milliners, and so forth, in this town.

[H]e vvill not vviſh to get out of that narrovv, that exceeding narrovv Circle; and, in my Opinion, ſhould keep no Company, but that of Tailors, VVigpuffers, and Milaners.

Word Forms

• milliners
• millinering
• millinered

Synonyms for milliner

Depending on context, synonyms include modiste, hatter, hatmaker.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include hatter, hatmaker, modiste, horse-milliner, capmaker, miller.

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