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millinery

millinery

2 9.9
Women's hats and the shop that makes and sells them
  • noun
  • /ˈmɪlɪnəri/
translation icon : sombrerería
  • After years of designing, her dream of opening a millinery became a reality.
  • millinery shop
  • millinery veil
  • millinery trade

So he taught himself millinery hat making in order to make a perfect Raiders of the Lost Ark hat.

Examples

  • A supervisor, recognizing her talent, promoted Greta from the millinery department to women's ready-to-wear, where she prospered.

    Fiction book (1999)
  • In wooden cases hung samples of dressmaking, sewing, tailoring, and millinery crafted by dexterous women students.

    Blog text (22)
  • I think she should stop working in that millinery shop.

  • My mother was a millinery buyer for a small department store.

  • Now, there's this millinery shop run by a charming woman.

  • Women have to wear hats to his Tuesday afternoon tea, and we've sold out of millinery.

    Fiction book (2000)
  • These hats Andzia herself sold to millinery shops.

    Fiction book (1993)
  • Bluma DeYoung Gans, born in Philadelphia, moved to Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1875, where she entered the millinery, dressmaking, and fancy dry goods business.

    Academic text (2003)
  • She owns a charming little millinery that specializes in vintage hats.

  • The boutique features a wide selection of millinery for every occasion.

Synonyms

hat shop
vsmillinery
1 1.0

A shop that sells hats, often for women

includes making styles as well as selling them
woman's hat
vsmillinery
1 1.4

A hat made for women that follows fashion

covers the trade and shops that make and sell those items
local milliner
vsmillinery
7.4

A local shop that makes and sells women's hats

covers both the products and the trade rather than a single local maker
hatting
vsmillinery
  • Archaic
6.8

A business that makes hats

relates specifically to women's styles rather than all headwear
hattery
vsmillinery
  • Archaic
8.9

The work of making hats

focuses on women's styles rather than the general craft of making headwear

How Industrial

hatting
  • Archaic
6.8
millinery
2 9.9
to handcraft
17 3.7

Surface Forms

millinery singular
millineries plural

Morphology

millinery = milliner (transparent) = milliner + y

Derived regularly from 'milliner' with the suffix '-y' forming a noun for the trade or products; the meaning directly relates to hats and the hat-making business.

Etymology

Millinery comes from milliner, a name for sellers of fine goods from Milan, the Italian city known for fashion. Over time milliner came to mean a maker or seller of women's 'hats', so millinery now means women's hats or the hat-making business.