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Definition of Haberdasheries
1. haberdashery [n] - See also: haberdashery
Lexicographical Neighbors of Haberdasheries
Literary usage of Haberdasheries
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Illuminating Engineering Practice: Lectures on Illuminating Engineering by University of Pennsylvania, Illuminating Engineering Society (1917)
"... furniture stores, undertaking, millinery shops, haberdasheries, art schools,
and in illuminating color photographs. Approximate Artificial Daylight. ..."
2. The Book of Business Etiquette by Nella Braddy Henney (1922)
"There are other haberdasheries where the service is distinctly good, ...
haberdasheries, however excellent, do not carry toys for one's baby nor presents ..."
3. The Writings of Mark Twain [pseud.] by Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner (1899)
"The Bridge was a sort of town to itself; it had its inn, its beer houses, its
bakeries, its haberdasheries, its food markets, its manufacturing industries, ..."
4. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1922)
"I observe also confectionery shops, wine shops, haberdasheries, dressmaking
establishments, stationery shops, and bookshops. I even discover a store selling ..."
5. History of Friedrich II, of Prussia: Called Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle (1900)
"Had begun as a travelling Pedlar ; used to call at Reinsberg, with female
haberdasheries exquisitely chosen ..."
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