Crossword clues for haberdashery
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Haberdashery \Hab"er*dash`er*y\
(h[a^]b"[~e]r*d[a^]sh`[~e]r*[y^]), n.
The goods and wares sold by a haberdasher; also (Fig.),
trifles.
--Burke.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., Anglo-French, "goods sold by a haberdasher," from haberdasher + -y (2). Meaning "a haberdasher's shop" is recorded from 1813, with meaning shading to -ery.
Wiktionary
n. 1 ribbon, buttons, thread, needles and similar sewing goods sold in a haberdasher's shop. 2 A shop selling such goods. 3 A shop selling clothing and accessories for men, including hats.
WordNet
n. a store where men's clothes are sold [syn: clothing store, haberdashery store, mens store]
the drygoods sold by a haberdasher [syn: men's furnishings]
Usage examples of "haberdashery".
Uncle Am had reached the haberdashery, just as I had, at about half past one and he had found that Burgoyne was out to lunch and would be back at two.
I want you to meet me tomorrow night on the beach of the Haberdashery Paradise.
Before her corpse could cool, I snatched her job at a Bond Street haberdashery, where I met my first master.
Occasionally she would go into Sydney, escorted by her silent maid Susan and the sly-faced Harbord, but for the most part groceries and haberdashery items were delivered each week.
In the morning of life they are rapt by intoxicating visions of some great haberdashery business, beckoned to by the voluptuous enticements of the legal profession, or maybe the Holy Grail they forswear all else to seek is a snug editorial chair.
I would go straight to the haberdashery department and choose what I wanted, even if it were only a pin cushion to take to my mother as a present.
They bought new clothes and hats in a Victoria Street haberdashery and wore them out into the street and in the slow falling rain walked down to the bus station and bought Rawlins a ticket for Nuevo Laredo.
Reinhard Stiffler had reached Mexico and after working for another German there for a few years had learned the language and the ropes sufficiently and had become solvent enough to open a small haberdashery shop in Mexico City.
They bought new clothes and hats in a Victoria Street haberdashery and wore them out into the street and in the slow falling rain walked down to the bus station and bought Rawlins a ticket for Nuevo Laredo.
On both sides, the avenue was lined with Wien's most exclusive and expensive shops, flaunting in their polished bay windows every kind of rich apparel, haberdashery, millinery and jewelry.
He stood in the doorway of the haberdashery, and he looked around at the fedoras and derbies and caps and Homburgs, and he held his own hat in his hands and stared into the shop, waiting.
Be it ribbons or buttons, stay-laces or whale-bone insertions, stockings or gloves, Sydney society purchased them at Halliday’s Haberdashery.