milliner
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Milliner \Mil"li*ner\, n. [From Milaner an inhabitant of Milan,
in Italy; hence, a man from Milan who imported women's
finery.]
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1. Formerly, a man who imported and dealt in small articles
of a miscellaneous kind, especially such as please the
fancy of women. [Obs.]
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No milliner can so fit his customers with gloves.
--Shak.
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2. A person who designs, makes, trims, or deals in hats,
bonnets, headdresses, etc., for women.
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{Man milliner}, a man who makes or deals in millinery, that
occupation having been at one time predominantly performed
by women; hence, contemptuously, a man who is busied with
trifling occupations or embellishments.
[1913 Webster +PJC]
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
53 Moby Thesaurus words for "milliner":
antique store, apothecary, automobile showroom, bookstore, bootery,
candy store, chemist, cigar store, clothiers, clothing store,
confectionery, dress shop, drugstore, dry goods store, florists,
fur salon, furniture store, gift shop, haberdashery,
hardware store, hat shop, hatmaker, hatter, hobby shop,
ironmongery, jewelers, jewelry store, leather goods store,
liquor store, luggage shop, milliners, novelty shop, package store,
pharmacy, saddlery, schlock house, schlock shop, secondhand shop,
secondhand store, shoe store, smoke shop, specialty shop,
sporting goods store, stationers, stationery store, sweater shop,
sweet shop, thrift shop, tobacco store, tobacconists, toy shop,
trimming store, used-car lot
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