noun
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hats, trimmings, etc, sold by a milliner
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the business or shop of a milliner
Etymology
Origin of millinery
Example Sentences
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On the main floor, check out tiny replica pioneer cabins and a building-wide two-story replica vintage Main Street with a bank, train station, millinery, general store, doctor, library, dentist and more.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 12, 2023
Here is a selection of some of this year's head-turning millinery.
From BBC • Jun. 16, 2022
“Showstoppers!” displays 100-odd costumes, as well as a handful of the tools used to make them, like millinery blocks and a 19th-century crewel machine from the embroiderers Penn & Fletcher.
From New York Times • Aug. 12, 2021
The Kentucky Derby is as much about $1,000 mint juleps and flamboyant millinery as a hoof-pounding competition that lasts barely two minutes.
From Washington Post • Sep. 2, 2020
“Suit yourself. But I did see Pearl Ann Larkin trying on a fetching hat at the millinery today. Big pink thing with feathers. She waved at me through the window.”
From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool
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