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Definition of Milliners
1. milliner [n] - See also: milliner
Lexicographical Neighbors of Milliners
Literary usage of Milliners
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Millinery as a Trade for Women by Lorinda Perry (1916)
"All that can be done here is to epitomize briefly the characteristic features of
various types of school training for milliners, and to indicate in a ..."
2. Life and Labour of the People in London by Charles Booth (1896)
"DRESS-MAKERS AND milliners. (Section 41.) Persons Represented. ... —1920— Total
Ih>-ss-makers and milliners 22313 58823 350 1762 8.1, tk Most of the ..."
3. Transactions of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science by George Woodyatt Hastings, Andrew Edgar, Charles Wager Ryalls, Edwin Pears (1864)
"He stated that though in 1842 the sufferings of the overworked dressmakers and
milliners were recorded in a Report of a Royal Commission, ..."
4. The Hygiene, Diseases and Mortality of Occupations by John Thomas Arlidge (1892)
"Dressmakers and milliners, and Seamstresses or Needlewomen, pursue a kind of work
analogous to that of tailors, but with articles commonly of less dense and ..."
5. The Hygiene, Diseases and Mortality of Occupations by John Thomas Arlidge (1892)
"Dressmakers and milliners, and Seamstresses or Needlewomen, pursue a kind of work
analogous to that of tailors, but with articles commonly of less dense and ..."
6. The token and Atlantic souvenir: a Christmas and New Year's present by Samuel Griswold Goodrich (1833)
"... they say, is quite a source of profit; And thus the Paris milliners opine, It
seems, for when their fashionable fabrics Remain too long on hand, ..."
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