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Dealer in sewing articles
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haberdasher
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A haberdasher is a person who sells small articles for sewing , such as buttons , ribbons , zips (in the United Kingdom), or a men's outfitter ( American English ). The sewing articles are called haberdashery , or " notions " (American English).
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Haberdasher \Hab"er*dash`er\ (h[a^]b"[~e]r*d[a^]sh`[~e]r), n. [Prob. fr. Icel. hapurtask trumpery, trifles, perh. through French. It is possibly akin to E. haversack, and to Icel. taska trunk, chest, pocket, G. tasche pocket, and the orig. sense was perh., ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A failed haberdasher before going into politics, Truman seemed overwhelmed by the job. ▪ He became a haberdasher and Merchant Adventurer, growing rich on the cloth export trade to Antwerp. ▪ The handsome delight of haberdashers ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A dealer in ribbons, buttons, thread, needles and similar sewing goods. 2 (context US English) A men's outfitter, usually a ''men's'' haberdasher. 3 (context British English) A member of the Haberdashers livery company.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 14c., "seller of various small articles of trade" (late 13c. as a surname), agent noun from Anglo-French hapertas "small wares," also a kind of fabric, of unknown origin. Sense of "dealer in men's wares" is 1887 in American English, via intermediate ...
Usage examples of haberdasher.
She bought half a dozen black silk Steinkirk cravats and asked the haberdasher to show her how to achieve some of the intricate knots.
She is at present apprenticed, Miss Mowcher, or articled, or whatever it may be, to Omer and Joram, Haberdashers, Milliners, and so forth, in this town.
He was remarkably heavier than his popular image, too, although his apparent weight problem might be illusory, the fault of the second-rate haberdasher who had put him in a loosely fitted robe that did nothing to flatter his figure.
Bambridge, who wanted to know what Horrock would do with blasted stuff only fit for haberdashers given over to that state of perdition which the horse-dealer so cordially recognized in the majority of earthly existences.
But when my father took me to Toronto he dutifully purchased these things, though the haberdashers were surprised that they were for a boy of fourteen.
On the way we passed the avenue's empty shops, where haberdashers and tobacconists, watchmakers and smiths, joiners and cobblers and ostlers plied their trades long before our grandparents were born.
Next in frequency were the haberdashers and clothes shops, with fantastic men's snakeskin shoes, shirts with small aeroplanes as a pattern, peg-top trousers with inch-wide stripes, zoot suits.