Crossword clues for milliner
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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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Formerly, a man who imported and dealt in small articles of a miscellaneous kind, especially such as please the fancy of women. [Obs.]
No milliner can so fit his customers with gloves.
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A person who designs, makes, trims, or deals in hats, bonnets, headdresses, etc., for women.
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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., "vendor of fancy wares, especially those made in Milan," Italian city, famous for straw works, fancy goods, ribbons, bonnets, and cutlery. Meaning "one who sells women's hats" may be from 1520s, certainly by 18c. (it is difficult in early references to know whether the word means a type of merchant or "a resident of Milan" who is selling certain wares).
Wiktionary
n. A person who is involved in the manufacture, design, or sale of hats for women.
WordNet
Wikipedia
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Category:Craft occupations Category:Fashion occupations *M
People with the surname Milliner include:
- Alan Milliner, Australian association football referee
- Bertie Milliner (1911–1975), Australian politician
- Dee Milliner (born 1991), American football player
- Eugene Milliner (1878–1921), baseballer
- Glen Milliner (born 1948), Australian politician (son of Bertie)
Usage examples of "milliner".
Julien guided her to various milliner shops and booteries throughout the remainder of the morning and into the afternoon.
The father brought in a milliner, who adorned the mask with an ell of lace for which I paid twelve sequins.
These two girls had been above an hour in the place, happily employed in visiting an opposite milliner, watching the sentinel on guard, and dressing a sallad and cucumber.
The old mother came to Uncle Jim, and, as she looked out of a little unfrosted spot on the window at the blinding storm, told him that the pink milliner would die.
No audience at the Abbey has ever marveled at cycloramic landscape, and no audience and no actress has ever been able to take the joy of the dressmaker and the dressed, of the milliner and the millinered, in gown or hat.
The inmates of boarding-schools, factory girls, seamstresses, milliners, employes in manufacturing establishments, and all who sit and toil almost unremittingly twelve hours in the day, do not get sufficient exercise of all the muscles of the body, and are often troubled with obstinate constipation.
Result, the boarding-house of the later half of the century, nominally a family home, actually a hotbed of faultfinding and gossip, most wearing to the teacher and fledgling professional woman, however acceptable to the milliner and seamstress.
As they depict him in their fevered treatises on illegitimacy, white-slave trading and ophthalmia neonatorum, the average male adult of the Christian and cultured countries leads a life of gaudy lubricity, rolling magnificently from one liaison to another, and with an almost endless queue of ruined milliners, dancers, charwomen, parlour-maids and waitresses behind him, all dying of poison and despair.
She was supposed to be attending the dressmakers and milliners for a final fitting of her wedding finery.
Madame Tellier, who came of a respectable family of peasant proprietors in the Department of the Eure, had taken up her profession, just as she would have become a milliner or dressmaker.
Sadie took her nimble fingers to an exclusive milliner and made custom hats with a skill so fine that not a stitch could be seen.
It seemed to say that the glittering shops of the jewelers, the milliners, the confectioners, the florists, the picture-dealers, the furriers, the makers of rare and costly antiquities, retail traders in luxuries of life, were beneath the notice of a house that had its foundations in the high finance, and was built literally and figuratively in the shadow of St.
Yet were I, traveller-like, to stop here, and set it down as a national peculiarity, or republican custom, that milliners took the lead in the best society, I should greatly falsify facts.
Rachel rode into Ellerton to make some small purchases from the milliners with one of the young grooms, Thomas, in attendance.
Soon after the milliner came in, but by that time I had given my young friend twenty Genoese sequins, telling her that she might use them for her private wants.