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Definition of Millinery
1. Noun. Shop selling women's hats.
2. Noun. Hats for women; the wares sold by a milliner.
Specialized synonyms: Church Hat, Cloche, Picture Hat, Pillbox, Toque, Turban
Generic synonyms: Chapeau, Hat, Lid
Definition of Millinery
1. n. The articles made or sold by milliners, as headdresses, hats or bonnets, laces, ribbons, and the like.
Definition of Millinery
1. Noun. Women's hats. ¹
2. Noun. A shop with women's hats. ¹
3. Noun. The wares of a shop with women's hats. ¹
4. Noun. The business and work that a milliner engages in. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Millinery
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Millinery
Literary usage of Millinery
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Art in Industry by Charles Russell Richards (1922)
"RETAIL millinery The problem of high-grade millinery NATURE OF DESIGNS ...
The influence of Paris is more strongly felt in the millinery industry than in ..."
2. Publication by National Child Labor Committee (U.S.), Cleveland Foundation Survey Committee, Emergency Conservation Committee (U.S.) (1916)
"millinery The work of the millinery department is in three sections. ... In the
advanced millinery, which takes about five months, they make hats in spring ..."
3. The Economic Position of Women by Academy of Political Science (U.S.), Academy of Political Science (U.S. (1910)
"There are more classes in millinery than in any other women's trade except ...
Yet an investigation of workers in millinery showed that these classes were ..."
4. International Library of Technology: A Series of Textbooks for Persons by International Textbook Company (1905)
"There is a greatly varied assortment of them now on display in the millinery
room —some all white and very plain, while others have crown and brim of ..."
5. Making More Money in Storekeeping: By W. R. Hotchkin by William Rowland Hotchkin (1917)
"millinery windows show no radical departures, and the millinery exhibition is
usually only a slight variation in the matter of decorations. ..."
6. Experience with Trade Union Agreements--clothing Industries: Research Report by National Industrial Conference Board (1921)
"Of the agreements with associations, two examples are here discussed—the agreement
in the millinery trade of New York City, and that in the cloth hat and ..."
7. Industrial Education by United States Bureau of Labor, Charles Henry Winslow, Jesse C. Bowen (1911)
"millinery.1 While the term ''millinery" is sometimes used in a broad ...
In considering the millinery trade certain lines of work are therefore excluded. ..."
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