单词 | millinery |
释义 | millineryn. 1. The articles made or sold by milliners. In earlier use frequently attributive. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > merchandise > article(s) to be sold > [noun] > goods sold by other specific traders cutlery1624 saltery ware1628 millinery1676 ironmongery1711 hardware1723 cheesemongery1760 confectionery1769 hosiery1790 hattery1824 drysaltery1847 shoemercery1862 drapery1897 the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > for a woman > collectively millinery1676 1676 in J. H. Trumbull Public Rec. Colony of Connecticut (1859) III. 500 Millinery; disbursements for combs, mittens, gloves, thread, silk. 1679–88 Secret Service (1851) 91 To Benjn Drake, in full of a bill for millenary, wares [perh. read millenary wares], &c. bought of him by the Dutchess of Cleaveland. 1711 Boston News-let. 22 Oct. 2/2 To be Sold..Pipes, Sadlery, Bunting, Millenary Goods. 1740 S. Richardson Pamela II. 351 What can be done in Town, as the Millenary [1741 Milanery] Matters, &c. to be completed there. 1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson ii. x. 246 European millinery ware for the women. 1797 E. Burke Third Let. Peace Regicide Directory France 132 You will hardly expect me to go through the tape and thread, and all the other small wares of haberdashery and millinery to be gleaned up among our imports. 1800 E. Hervey Mourtray Family IV. v. 96 My maid came to ask, if I chose to see some very pretty millinery articles. 1855 Ld. Tennyson Maud vi. vi, in Maud & Other Poems 70 That dandy-despot, he, That jewell'd mass of millinery. 1882 Daily News 4 Mar. Cotton millinery laces are still greatly run upon. 1900 Westm. Gaz. 5 Dec. 9/1 The eminent millinery establishment. 1901 F. M. Müller Autobiogr. 289 I could not understand how these men..could put aside the fundamental questions of Christianity and give their whole mind to what seemed to me rightly called in the newspapers ‘mere millinery’. 1912 Every Woman's Encycl. VII. 4447/2 Get some dark green millinery wire covered. 1926 Glasgow Herald 25 Sept. 9 It began to rain... Many a beautiful marcel was sacrificed to save a masterpiece of millinery. 1965 Which? Mar. 95/1 Silk chiffon, a light, open mesh fabric, soft and smooth. For scarves, lingerie, evening dresses, millinery. 1988 M. Seymour Ring of Conspirators ii. 57 In her four years at Rye, Miss Weld's most daring act was to purchase a more decorative piece of millinery than her sailor hat. 2. The trade, business, or craft of a milliner. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > tailoring or making clothes > making headgear > [noun] > millinery millinery1792 millinerying1802 millinering1829 1792 M. Wollstonecraft Vindic. Rights Woman xii. 389 In the afternoon, the girls should attend a school, where plain-work, mantua-making, millinery, &c., would be their employment. 1835 Southern Literary Messenger 1 682/1 All her ministers were her votaries: it was the reign of coquetry, and the golden age of millinery. 1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby xvii. 157 Processes known only to those who are cunning in the arts of millinery and dress-making. 1887 Wellington (Somerset) Weekly News 3 Feb. in Eng. Dial. Dict. Apprentices and improvers wanted to the millinery, to the dressmaking, to the currying. a1911 D. G. Phillips Susan Lenox (1917) II. v. 113 I was in millinery. But in this town there's nothing in anything unless you have capital. 2000 Palm Beach (Florida) Post (Electronic ed.) 15 Jan. Don't toss millinery onto the scrap heap of dead-end 21st-century careers just yet. DerivativesΚΠ 1802 F. Burney Jrnl. May (1975) v. 251 She is very clever in milinarying. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1676 |
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