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haberdasher|ˈhæbədæʃə(r)|
Forms: 4–6 haberdassher, haburdaissher, -dassher, 4 habirdaschere, -dasshere, 5 habardashar, 6– haberdasher, (7 habber-).
[Has the form of a derivative of haberdash n. (q.v.), or of the AFr. hapertas (quasi *hapertassier, *haberdassier); but the actual nature of the relationship between these words is left doubtful by their relative dates, as well as by the undetermined relation in which haberdash and hapertas stand to each other.]
Formerly, a dealer in a variety of articles now dealt with by other trades, including caps, and probably hats: see quots. In the course of the 16th c. the trade seems to have been split into two, those of: †a. A dealer in, or maker of, hats and caps, a hatter (obs.); b. A dealer in small articles appertaining to dress, as thread, tape, ribbons, etc. Formerly also a drink-seller (as a dealer in ‘tape’ = spirituous liquor).
1311–12Liber Memorandorum 53 in Liber Albus (Rolls) III. 433 Super diversos haberdasshers et capellarios. c1386Chaucer Prol. 361 An haberdasshere [v.rr. habir-, habur-, -daschere, -daissher] and a Carpenter. 1502Arnolde Chron. (1811) 108 William Warboys citezen and haburdasher of London. c1515Cocke Lorell's B. (Percy Soc.) 9 Salters, Towelers, and habardashars. c1550Disc. Common Weal Eng. (1893) 64 Haberdashers that sell french or milan cappes, glasses, Daggers, swerdes, gridles and such things. 1561Stow Eng. Chron. (Howe 1615) 869/1 The Milloners, or Haberdashers, in that place, sould mousetrappes, bird cages, shooing hornes, Lanthornes, and Jews trumpes. 1594Nashe Unfort. Trav. 38 Bookes, pictures, beades, crucifixes, why there was a haberdashers shop of them in euerie chamber. [1720Strype Stow's Surv. (1754–5) II. v. x. 278/2 Haberdashers..were also called Milliners, so called from..Milan in Italy, whence the Commodities they dealt in chiefly came; such were Owches, Brooches, Agglets, Spurs, Caps, Glasses, &c.]
a.1566Act 8 Eliz. c. 11 §3 For the better and truer making of Cappes and Hattes within this Realme..it shalbe lefull to the Maister and Wardens of the Company of Haberdasshers within the Citie of London..to [etc.]. c1572Gascoigne Fruites Warre lxiv, The Haberdasher heapeth wealth by hattes. 1691Wood Ath. Oxon. III. 699/2 John Fisher a haberdasher of hats and mayor of Northampton. 1711Budgell Spect. No. 161 ⁋3 He..had won so many Hats, that his Parlour looked like a Haberdasher's Shop. 1711Steele Ibid. No. 187 ⁋7 Mr. Sly, Haberdasher of Hats..has prepared very neat Hats, Rubbers, and Brushes.
b.1611Cotgr., Mercerot, a Pedler, a paltrie Haberdasher. 1617Minsheu Ductor, An Habberdasher of small wares..In London also called a Millenier, à Lat. mille. i. a thousand, as one hauing a thousand small wares to sell. 1630Massinger Renegado ii. iii, A great lady dote upon A haberdasher of small wares! 1696Phillips (ed. 5), Haberdasher, one that sells a great many several sorts of Wares, as Riband, Gloves, &c. Also a Seller of Hats. 1708Lond. Gaz. No. 4462/4 William Andrews of London, Haberdasher of small Wares. 1745De Foe's Eng. Tradesman vi. (1841) I. 38 Haberdasher [buys] of the thread merchants. 1755Johnson, Haberdasher, one who sells small wares; a pedlar. 1845J. Saunders Cab. Pict., Chaucer 241 Haberdashers were originally a branch of the mercers; and dealt, like them, in small wares. 1821P. Egan Life in London ii. viii. 354 The Haberdasher is busily employed in measuring out tape for his customers. 1828‘W. T. Moncrieff’ Tom & Jerry iii. v. 76 The haberdasher is the whistler, otherwise the spirit-merchant, Jerry—and tape the commodity he deals in. 1893Farmer & Henley Slang III. 243/1 Haberdasher, (humorously) a publican.
c. fig. (cf. dealer, retailer, vendor).
1592Nashe P. Penilesse (ed. 2) 21 a, A Haberdasher of Wilde-fowle, or a Merchant venturer of daintie meat. 15971st Pt. Return fr. Parnass. iv. i. 1235 This haberdasher of lyes. 1664J. Wilson Project. iv. Dram. Wks. (1874) 264 See! your haberdasher of small projects. a1700B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew, Habberdasher of Nouns and Pronouns, Schoolmaster or Usher. a1764Lloyd New River Head Poet. Wks. 1774 II. 65 Haberdashers of small jokes. 1827Lytton Pelham xvi, This ‘Haber-dasher of pronouns’ was a person of the name of Margot. 1828Craven Dial. s.v., A schoolmaster, alias a haberdasher of nouns and pronouns.
d. attrib.
1813Examiner 10 May 296/1 They are altogether haberdasher Statesmen.
Hence haberdasheress, a female haberdasher.
1702T. Brown Lett. Dead to Living Wks. 1760 II. 272, I found..Thalestris the Amazonian, who, as I hinted to you in my last, is become a haberdasheress of small wares. |