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Definition of Haberdashery
1. Noun. A store where men's clothes are sold.
Generic synonyms: Shop, Store
Specialized synonyms: Slopseller's Shop, Slopshop
2. Noun. The drygoods sold by a haberdasher.
Definition of Haberdashery
1. n. The goods and wares sold by a haberdasher; also (Fig.), trifles.
Definition of Haberdashery
1. Noun. ribbons, buttons, thread, needles and similar sewing goods sold in a haberdasher's shop. ¹
2. Noun. a shop selling such goods. ¹
3. Noun. a shop selling clothing and accessories for men, including hats. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Haberdashery
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Haberdashery
Literary usage of Haberdashery
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Emma Lady Hamilton from New and Original Sources and Documents: Together by Walter Sydney Sichel (1907)
"An account of haberdashery, etc., supplied to her Ladyship on the death of Sir
William Hamilton, dated 8/A April, two days after his decease, consisting of ..."
2. English Composition as a Social Problem by Sterling Andrus Leonard (1917)
"... likely to succeed if we let him take his choice among haberdashery with a
generous amount of bright but really good color and thus come naturally toward ..."
3. Emma Lady Hamilton: From New and Original Sources and Documents, Together by Walter Sydney Sichel (1905)
"An account of haberdashery, etc., supplied to her Ladyship on the death of Sir
William Hamilton, dated 8tA April, two days after his decease, consisting of ..."
4. Brookes's General Gazetteer Improved: Or, A New and Compendious Geographical ...by Richard Brookes by Richard Brookes (1812)
"... are spices, sugars, silks, • i jik-n, and linen manufactures, elc- •> teeth,
and haberdashery «ares, ".:-, hne copper, cabinets, and other cti- . ..."
5. The Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne by Nathaniel Hawthorne, George Parsons Lathrop, Julian Hawthorne (1883)
"They form a numerous class in Florence, displaying their wares — linen or cotton
cloth, threads, combs, and all manner of haberdashery — on movable counters ..."
6. A Complete Index to the Companion to the Almanac, from Its Commencement, in (1843)
"haberdashery, value of, exported in 1827, '28. 167; and millinery, exports of,
value of, in 1834 and 1836, and 1837, '39. 183; exports of, quantities and ..."
7. Passages from the French and Italian Note-books of Nathaniel Hawthorne by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1899)
"They form a numerous class in Florence, displaying their wares — linen or cotton
cloth, threads, combs, and all manner of haberdashery — on movable counters ..."
8. The Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1888)
"They form a numerous class in Florence, displaying their wares — linen or cotton
cloth, threads, combs, and all manner of haberdashery — on movable counters ..."
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