haberdasher
3
8.9
- noun
- /ˈhæbərˌdæʃər/
:
modista
- After browsing the haberdasher's selection, he finally chose a crisp white dress shirt for the wedding.
- haberdashers and tailors
This guy is a haberdasher with his new babies line.
- This guy is a haberdasher with his new babies line.
- And it gets back to what I said earlier, which is, yeah, I probably would wear velvet gloves if I could find them at my haberdasher.
Examples
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Then perhaps you might explain to me what occasioned you to enter a haberdasher's shop - on the day in question.
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The haberdasher carefully displayed his collection of stylish shirts and ties in the shop window.
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Next, call Pleschke the haberdasher.
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It is the property of the haberdasher, Mr Arnold.
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Her father was a bail bondsman and haberdasher.
Academic text (1995) -
Then I'm going to a haberdasher and gonna get myself brand-new duds.
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At times he would come home from a wedding in the morning, change his clothes, eat a lunch of cold chicken from the night before, drink a glass of white wine, sleep for half an hour, rouse himself with difficulty, put on the fresh attire that had only just come from the haberdasher's, and hasten away to be married for the second time that day.
Fiction book (1997) -
High glass arcades filtered sunlight down on restaurants, barbershops, bars, haberdashers, bookshops, and gramophone dealers.
Fiction book (1992) -
During his year-long visits to the capital in the 1850s, Bruyas frequented not only museums and art studios but also grand haberdashers, much to his father's alarm.
Academic text (2004) -
Tonight, stop at one of the local inns—the Dulvan yonder is adequate—then tomorrow or the next day visit a reputable haberdasher and put yourself into his hands.
Fiction book (1993)
Synonyms
31
1.9
A person who owns or runs a small store and sells goods to customers
22
8.4
A shop or person who sells cloth and materials for sewing
14
5.6
A person who makes and sells hats
4
7.4
A person who sells goods in the street or at markets
2
6.1
A maker or seller of clothes
1
3.7
A person who runs a shop that sells goods or services
1
6.1
A person or shop that sells men's clothes, especially suits and formal clothes
1
6.1
A shop or company that has and sells goods of a particular brand
1
4.2
A person who makes and sells hats
A person who buys and sells goods in a shop or market
A man who works in a shop and helps customers
A person or business that sells to customers
A person who made or sold hats long ago
A person who offers cheap ready-made clothes for working people
A person who sells small items in markets, often moving from place to place and bargaining
Surface Forms
Morphology
haberdasher = haberdash (opaque) = haberdash + er
Although formed by the regular agentive suffix '-er', the base 'haberdash' is rare/archaic and not transparent to a typical B1 learner.
Etymology
Haberdasher comes from old English and French words meaning 'seller of small goods', and you can see the same idea in the shop name haberdashery, which sells buttons, thread and small parts for clothing. So a haberdasher is a person who sells men's clothing and the little items that go with it.