milliner
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milliner¹
- /ˈmɪlɪnə/ UK
- /ˈmɪlənəɹ/ US
Sounds like Milaner
Where it comes from
The noun is a variant of Milaner (“(obsolete) inhabitant or native of Milan”) (referring to the importation and sale of women’s apparel, etc., made in Milan: see noun sense 1), from Late Middle English Milener, Miloner (“native of Milan”), from Milan + -er(e) (suffix denoting an inhabitant or resident).
The verb is derived from the noun.
noun milliners
- A person who sells (women's) apparel, accessories, and other decorative goods, especially those originally manufactured in Milan. He hath ſongs for man, or vvoman, of all ſizes: No Milliner can ſo fit his cuſtomers vvith Gloues: […]
- A person involved in the design, manufacture, or sale of hats for women. The Milliner muſt be thoroughly verſed in Phyſiognomy; in the Choice of Ribbons ſhe muſt have a particular regard to the Complexion, and muſt ever be mindful to cut the Head-dreſs to the Dimentions of the Face.
verb milliners · millinering · millinered
- To manufacture (women's apparel, specifically hats); also, to supply (someone) with women's apparel, specifically hats. We pass over his ridiculous observation […] that Sallust has been "man-millinered by Dr. [Henry] Steuart;" for on what we do not understand we can make no remarks.
- To adorn or decorate (something). We would not have Poesy to be greatly millinered, whatever fashions other ladies may adopt; and when we meet her corseted in the iron framework of the sonnet's rhymes, and crinolined about with the unyielding drapery of its fourteen lines, we feel that she is no doubt elegantly dressed, but we long
Milliner²
proper noun Milliners
- A surname.
Translations
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noun person who sells (women’s) apparel, accessories, and other decorative goods, especially those originally manufactured in Milan
| Русский | моди́стка modístka |
|---|
noun person involved in the design, manufacture, or sale of hats for women
| Français | modiste |
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| Deutsch | Hutmacher |
| Русский | шля́пный ма́стер šljápnyj máster, шля́пная мастери́ца šljápnaja masteríca |
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title = {milliner},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
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urldate = {2026-11-06}
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