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milliner

UK/ˈmɪlɪnə/US/ˈmɪlənəɹ/
nounC1Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #13,962 of 15,258leans written

Other forms: milliners

A milliner is a maker of hats. A milliner's shop, trained as a milliner, the milliner's window.

The trade is women's hats specifically, and a maker of men's hats is a hatter. The word comes from Milan, whose imported ribbons and trimmings the first milliners sold before they made anything themselves.

Edgar Degas · Public domain

Definitions of milliner

  1. 1nounmillinerA maker of hats.C1

    “She ordered a hat for the wedding from a milliner in town.”

milliner is a maker.

Where it comes from

A variant of Milaner, an inhabitant of Milan, from the Milanese goods such sellers imported.

  1. Proto-Indo-European

    *wer-

  2. Middle English

    Milener

  3. English, today

    milliner

Built from

  • Milaner · English — (obsolete) inhabitant or native of Milan
  • Miloner · Middle English — native of Milan

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 seller), from Late Middle English Milener, Miloner (“native of Milan”), from Milan + -er. The verb is derived from the noun.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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milliner in the wild

  • In 2000, Treacy became the first milliner in eighty years to be invited to exhibit at the Paris haute couture fashion shows.

    Philip Treacy

  • A person engaged in this trade is called a milliner or hatter.

    Hatmaking

  • In France, milliners are known as marchand(e)s de modes (fashion merchants), rather than being specifically associated with hat-making.

    Hatmaking

  • The cloche hat or simply cloche () is a fitted, bell-shaped hat for women that was invented in 1908 by milliner Caroline Reboux.

    Cloche hat

  • Couture houses like Lanvin and Molyneux opened ateliers to join milliners in manufacturing hats that precisely matched their clothing designs.

    Cloche hat

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.