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ˈman-ˈmilliner
Pl. men-, man-milliners.
A man who makes or vends millinery; ‘hence, a man who is busied with trifling occupations or embellishments’ (Webster).
1792Floyd in Southey Life A. Bell (1844) I. 439 Many unfortunate young gentlemen are put into the army by their barbarous friends,..who have not constitutions for a man-milliner. 1796Southey Lett. fr. Spain (1799) 223, I look upon a Man milliner not only as one of the most despicable members of society, but as one of the most injurious. 1807Sporting Mag. XXIX. 185 The plaintiff is a Haberdasher and Man-milliner living in Piccadilly. 1813Examiner 1 Feb. 76/2 Some men milliners deprecate the employment of women. 1814Hazlitt Pol. Ess. (1819) 66 The Morning Herald sheds tears of joy over the fashionable virtues of the rising generation, and finds that we shall make better man-milliners, better lacqueys, and better courtiers than ever. 1839T. Hook Birth, Deaths, etc. I. ii. 53 He's an empty-pated fellow, and as conceited as a man-milliner. 1901Westm. Gaz. 5 Feb. 5/2 One of the leading man-milliners hopes the strike [of ladies' tailors in Paris] will succeed.
attrib.1850Thackeray Contrib. to Punch Wks. (Biogr. ed.) VI. 691 One of those twopenny-halfpenny men-milliner moralists. |