millinery

millinery

English

Etymology

milliner +‎ -y (“(nominalizer)”)

Pronunciation

• (American) IPA^(key): /ˈmɪl.nɚˌi/; (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈmɪl.ɪ.nɚ.i/

Noun

millinery (countable and uncountable, plural millineries)

1. Women's hats.
2. (countable) A shop selling women's hats.
3. (uncountable) The business and work that a milliner engages in.
   • 1976, Saul Bellow, Humboldt's Gift, New York: Avon, →ISBN, page 471:

     They used to tell one about a kid asking his grumpy old man when they were walking to the park, "What's the name of this flower, Papa?" And the old guy is peevish and he yells, "How should I know? Am I in the milinery business?"

Hypernyms

• hatmaking

Translations

Women's hats

Bulgarian: дамски шапки (damski šapki) Irish: hataí ban m pl

A shop with women's hats

German: Hutgeschäft n, Modewaren pl, Modewarengeschäft n, Boutique (de) f Irish: siopa hataí m Spanish: boneteria

The business and work that a milliner engages in

Bulgarian: шапкарство n (šapkarstvo) German: Hutmacherei (de) f Irish: haitéireacht f

See also

• haberdashery