Milliner
['mɪlɪnə] or ['mɪlənɚ]
Definition
(n.) Formerly, a man who imported and dealt in small articles of a miscellaneous kind, especially such as please the fancy of women.
(n.) A person, usually a woman, who makes, trims, or deals in hats, bonnets, headdresses, etc., for women.
Editor: Tamara
Definition
n. one who makes head-dresses bonnets &c. for women.—n. Mill′inery the articles made or sold by milliners: the industry of making these.
Inputed by Angela
Examples
- Ah, a milliner is a very important person, my child. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Rebecca had as good taste as any milliner in Europe, and such a clever way of doing things as Lady Jane little understood. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- In the fulness of time a milliner came in, and to her she repaired on her own behalf. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- This other is a milliner's account for thirty-seven pounds fifteen made out by Madame Lesurier, of Bond Street, to William Derbyshire. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Learning to be a milliner--at least TRYING to learn, she hastily qualified the statement. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Mrs Boffin bears Miss Bella away to her Milliner's and Dressmaker's, and she gets beautifully dressed. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I will find that out when your milliner's bills come in. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Osborne is not going to run off with a Duchess or ruin a milliner. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- A score of years hence that too, that milliner's wonder, will have passed into the domain of the absurd, along with all previous vanities. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Sometimes, the milliner and the jeweller are at the bottom of it. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- So day after day she, and my darling, and my little maid Charley, and a milliner out of the town, and I, sat hard at work, as pleasantly as possible. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- O Mrs General, ask the milliner who taught her to work, and the dancing-master who taught her sister to dance. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Her girls had more milliners' furniture than they had ever enjoyed before. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- She found Amelia's milliners for her and regulated her household and her manners. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
Edited by Blair