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haberdashery|ˈhæbəˌdæʃərɪ|
[f. prec.: see -ery.]
1. The goods and wares sold by a haberdasher. Also fig.
1419Liber Albus iii. i. (Rolls) 230 Les Fees de Layn de Spaigne et Haberdasshrie. 1593Nashe Christ's T. (1613) 96 Those are the Syrens, that hang out their shining Silks and Veluets, and dazle Prides eyes with their deceitfull haberdashry. 1690Child Disc. Trade (1694) 166 Our own Commodities being some rated very low, as Drapery, Silk Wares, Haberdashery. 1773G. Steevens Let. 8 Dec. in Garrick's Corr. (1831) I. 588 He might have made many discoveries of consequence to us who deal in the haberdashery of words. 1796Burke Regic. Peace iii. Wks. VIII. 390 Tape and thread, and all the other small wares of haberdashery and millinery. 1851Mayhew Lond. Labour I. 373 A highly respectable draper told me that he never could thoroughly understand where hosiery, haberdashery, or drapery, began or ended. 1873R. Broughton Nancy I. 133, I am involved in a whirlwind of haberdashery, Brussels lace, diamonds. 1923Kipling Independence 31 He may be festooned with the whole haberdashery of success.
2. The shop or establishment of a haberdasher.
1813Scott Trierm. ii. Interl. iii, A walking haberdashery, Of feathers, lace, and fur.
3. attrib. and Comb., as haberdashery-ware, etc.
1547Privy Council Acts (1890) II. 467 A ship laden with wynes, sylkes, and other haberdasshery wares. 1745De Foe's Eng. Tradesman xlv. (1841) II. 161 Haberdashery⁓ware from Holland. 1754Richardson Grandison (1781) I. xxxv. 245 A kind of haberdashery shop. 1797–1805S. & Ht. Lee Canterb. T. V. 40 In the haberdashery line. |