local milliner
- noun
- /ˈloʊkəl ˈmɪlɪnər/
:
sombrerería local
- She commissioned a beautiful hat from her local milliner for the wedding.
Examples
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The local milliner displayed her new spring collection in the shop window.
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I visited the local milliner yesterday.
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Many customers visited the local milliner to prepare for Derby Day.
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The local milliner creates beautiful hats.
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Many customers visited the local milliner to prepare for Derby Day.
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She commissioned a beautiful hat from her local milliner for the wedding.
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The local milliner displayed her new spring collection in the shop window.
Synonyms
14
5.6
A person who makes and sells hats
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9.9
Women's hats and the shop that makes and sells them
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8.4
A person who makes or sells hats for women
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1.0
A shop that sells hats, often for women
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4.2
A person who makes and sells hats
A person who makes or sells fashionable women's clothes such as dresses and hats
A person who made or sold hats long ago
How Specialized
Surface Forms
Morphology
The noun phrase is compositionally straightforward: 'local' (in the area) modifies 'milliner' (a hat maker/seller), so a B1 learner who knows both words can infer it refers to a milliner/shop in the local area. This follows standard adjective + noun composition and is a cross-linguistically common pattern, making the meaning immediately derivable from the constituents.
Etymology
Local milliner means the hat maker or seller near you. The word milliner may come from people from Milan who sold fancy goods, so one popular story says it came to mean a 'hat maker', and local shows the shop is nearby.