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haberdashery

8.6

Small sewing items like buttons and thread

noun
/ˌhæbərˈdæʃəri/

: artículos de mercería

The tailor's shop was filled with various items of haberdashery, all neatly organized for customers.

Examples

At the sewing store, I found a wide selection of haberdashery, including buttons and zippers.
To that end, it has been decided that haberdashery and notions should go to bathroom fittings and sanitary-ware.

Bob Roberts (1992)
Well, I got some elegant frippery, finery and haberdashery.

The Joker is Wild (1957)
As such, sewing is also related to another obscure material theme in Gulliver, to textiles, fabrics, and (very commonly) to handkerchiefs, that most handy item of haberdashery.

Academic text (2016)
She visited the local haberdashery to buy thread and other supplies for her sewing project.

Compounds

haberdashery store

6.3

A shop that sells men's hats, shirts and ties

Surface Forms

haberdashery singular

haberdasheries plural

Morphology

haberdashery = haberdasher (semi-transparent) = haberdasher + y

The collective sense follows the same regular derivation from 'haberdasher', but the specialized trade vocabulary still makes the meaning only partly transparent.

Etymology

Haberdashery is also used for the small sewing items themselves; think of it as the 'small goods' a haberdasher sells — buttons, zippers and thread — and that is why it can mean those items together.