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milliner

noun
/ˈmɪlɪnə/UK/ˈmɪlənəɹ/US

Etymology

The noun is a variant of Milaner (“(obsolete) inhabitant or native of Milan”) (referring to the importation and sale of women’s apparel, etc., made in Milan: see noun sense 1), from Late Middle English Milener, Miloner (“native of Milan”), from Milan + -er(e) (suffix denoting an inhabitant or resident). The verb is derived from the noun.

  1. inherited from Milener

Definitions

  1. A person who sells (women's) apparel, accessories, and other decorative goods, especially…

    A person who sells (women's) apparel, accessories, and other decorative goods, especially those originally manufactured in Milan.

    • He hath ſongs for man, or vvoman, of all ſizes: No Milliner can ſo fit his cuſtomers vvith Gloues: […]
    • [H]e vvill not vviſh to get out of that narrovv, that exceeding narrovv Circle; and, in my Opinion, ſhould keep no Company, but that of Tailors, VVigpuffers, and Milaners.

  2. A person involved in the design, manufacture, or sale of hats for women.

    • The Milliner muſt be thoroughly verſed in Phyſiognomy; in the Choice of Ribbons ſhe muſt have a particular regard to the Complexion, and muſt ever be mindful to cut the Head-dreſs to the Dimentions of the Face.
    • Milliners, toymen, and jewellers came down from London [to Tunbridge Wells], and opened a bazaar under the trees.

  3. To manufacture (women's apparel, specifically hats)

    To manufacture (women's apparel, specifically hats); also, to supply (someone) with women's apparel, specifically hats.

    • We pass over his ridiculous observation […] that Sallust has been "man-millinered by Dr. [Henry] Steuart;" for on what we do not understand we can make no remarks.
    • In the east, the only "study of mankind, is man." They have no Miss [Maria] Edgeworth, nor any of those millinering cutters-out of human nature into certain patterns of given rules in education.
    • Oh, if I had but a decent little income, enough to make her tolerably comfortable! For you know she couldn't go on millinering if she was married to me. My mother wouldn't stand that.
  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. To adorn or decorate (something).

    2. A surname.

The neighborhood

Derived

horse-milliner, millineress, millinerial, millineric, millinering, milliner's, millinery

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA