Thesaurus: milliner

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1. n. Formerly, a man who imported and dealt in small articles of a miscellaneous kind, especially such as please the fancy of women.
2. n. A person, usually a woman, who makes, trims, or deals in hats, bonnets, headdresses, etc., for women.
3. n. someone who makes and sells hats
4. 1. Formerly, a man who imported and dealt in small articles of a miscellaneous kind, especially such as please the fancy of women. [Obs.] No milliner can so fit his customers with gloves. Shak. 2. A person, usually a woman, who makes, trims, or deals in hats, bonnets, headdresses, etc., for women. Man milliner, a man who makes or deals in millinery; hence, contemptuously, a man who is busied with trifling occupations or embellishments.
5. n:100 n someone who makes and sells hats