millinery

/'milinəri/

Thân thiện

A woman tries on a beautiful hat in the millinery shop.

Definition

1. 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.

Học thuật

Noun

1. hats for women; the wares sold by a milliner
2. shop selling women's hats

Từ đồng nghĩa

• woman's hat
• hat shop