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millinery

[ mil-uh-ner-ee, -nuh-ree ]

noun

  1. women's hats and other articles made or sold by milliners.
  2. the business or trade of a milliner.


millinery

/ -ɪnrɪ; ˈmɪlɪnərɪ /

noun

  1. hats, trimmings, etc, sold by a milliner
  2. the business or shop of a milliner
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of millinery1

First recorded in 1670–80; milliner + -y 3
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Example Sentences

Atop her head sat an upturned, dented little metal bucket—recycling turned into millinery.

Pippa wore a hat embroidered with butterflies, by Madeleine Millinery, and a gold sequinned dress.

Thirty trunks—constructed to house everything from crinolines and corsets, to dresses and millinery—are piled high.

From where he sat he could look across at the muddy car standing before a closed millinery-and-drygoods store.

It is very difficult for her to do this if she has had no training in dressmaking or in millinery.

Girls in such a circle could all help in blouse making or in millinery.

She had picked up some of the ends of her burnt millinery, which she used to barter for food as they went along.

I think they must have opened a store; for she spoke of having on hand a valuable stock of millinery and medicines.

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