skull-thatcher
English
Noun
skull-thatcher (plural skull-thatchers)
- (Britain, slang, obsolete) A maker of straw bonnets.
- 1828, Cumberland's Minor Theatre (page 5)
- Having been sent to London on a medical trip by his uncle, Mr. Quince, he had become smitten with a fair milliner — a skull-thatcher, anglice, a maker of straw bonnets, but with no more money in her purse than would buy a dose of salts […]
- 1859, J. W. Overton, Harry Hartley; or, Social science for the workers (volume 420, page 29)
- 'Which accounts for your frequent attendance, loveliest of skull thatchers!' said Harry in a polite bantering tone, which did not make the intended sarcasm less apparent.
- 1828, Cumberland's Minor Theatre (page 5)
References
- 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary