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hatting

hatting

6.8
A business that makes hats
  • noun
  • /ˈhætɪŋ/
  • Archaic
translation icon : fabricación de sombreros
  • So I spent a long time sort of looking at hat blogs and watching people steam hats and reading about it.

Examples

  • Well, there's knowing the plane and then there's flat-hatting.

    Devotion (2022)

  • Hatting is a serious business.

    Alice Through the Looking Glass (2016)

  • Materials to make hats, blank hats that you can buy and decorate, and then materials in which to decorate said hats.

  • In 1961, he managed to put southern Spain into blackout by pulling down the major transmission line in the region with his tail hook while "flat hatting" (which usually gets the flat-hatter turned out of Naval Aviation).

    Blog text (25)

  • The local factory specializes in hatting, crafting stylish hats for all seasons.

  • Many small businesses are dedicated to hatting, offering unique designs that attract customers.

  • In the workshop, the art of hatting is taken seriously, with skilled artisans creating beautiful headwear.

Synonyms

millinery
vshatting
2 9.9

Women's hats and the shop that makes and sells them

is broader covering hat making generally rather than women's hat trade
hattery
vshatting
  • Archaic
8.9

The work of making hats

is the business or process of making hats rather than the craft

How Industrial

hatting
  • Archaic
6.8
millinery
2 9.9
to handcraft
17 3.7

Surface Forms

hatting singular
hattings plural

Morphology

hatting = hat (transparent) = hat + ting

The process or business of making hats is directly derived from the base word 'hat' with the suffix '-ting' indicating an action or process.

Etymology

Hatting comes from the Old English word hætt meaning 'hat' and from the name hatter for a hat-maker, so hatting is the work or trade of making hats.