millinery
/'milinəri/
Definition
- Noun:
- Hats for women; the business of designing, making, or selling women's hats: "Millinery" refers to women's hats as a category of fashion accessories, or to the craft and trade associated with them.
- A shop selling women's hats: "Millinery" can also refer to the establishment where such hats are sold.
Examples of Usage
- Noun:
- She studied millinery to learn how to design elegant hats. (She studied the craft of making women's hats.)
- The store's window displayed the latest spring millinery. (The store's window displayed the newest women's hats for spring.)
- She opened a millinery on the fashionable street. (She opened a shop selling women's hats.)
Advanced Usage
- "The art of millinery": refers to the skilled craft and design involved in creating women's hats.
- She apprenticed under a master to learn the art of millinery.
- "A piece of millinery": refers to a single hat or headpiece.
- Her wedding outfit was completed with a beautiful piece of millinery.
Variants and Related Words
- Milliner (noun): a person who designs, makes, or sells women's hats.
- The milliner created a custom hat for the bride.
Synonyms
- Hatmaking: the craft of making hats.
- Headgear: a general term for items worn on the head (broader than millinery).
- Women's hats: the direct descriptive term for the products.
Related Phrases
- "To be in millinery": to work in the business of designing or selling women's hats.
- She has been in millinery for over twenty years.
Noun
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hats for women; the wares sold by a milliner
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shop selling women's hats
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