haberdasher
a retail dealer in men's furnishings, as shirts, ties, gloves, socks, and hats.
Chiefly British. a dealer in small wares and notions.
Origin of haberdasher
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How to use haberdasher in a sentence
He looked, that dreadful afternoon, as if he had just come from his barber, tailor and haberdasher.
The Stacks: H.L. Mencken on the 1904 Baltimore Fire | H.L. Mencken | October 4, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIn the buildup to the 1946 midterms, the failed haberdasher with a funny accent from western Missouri was extremely unpopular.
In his teens he was despatched to London to serve his apprenticeship to a haberdasher in Lawrence Lane.
Witch, Warlock, and Magician | William Henry Davenport AdamsThe two young men enter at the bar, take modest lodgings in the house of a haberdasher, and become the heroes of the story.
There's a haberdasher's wife of small wit near him, that railed upon me till her Pink'd porringer fell off her head.
The plant-lore and garden-craft of Shakespeare | Henry Nicholson Ellacombe
In the other corner, by the writing-desk, stood the hatter and the haberdasher with their heads together.
Richard Carvel, Complete | Winston ChurchillThe haberdasher looked Mr. Magee fully in the eye, and the latter was startled by the hostility he saw in the other's face.
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British Dictionary definitions for haberdasher
/ (ˈhæbəˌdæʃə) /
British a dealer in small articles for sewing, such as buttons, zips, and ribbons
US a men's outfitter
Origin of haberdasher
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