MILLINER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does milliner mean? 

• MILLINER (noun)
  The noun MILLINER has 1 sense:

1. someone who makes and sells hats

  Familiarity information: MILLINER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MILLINER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who makes and sells hats

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

hatmaker; hatter; milliner; modiste

Hypernyms ("milliner" is a kind of...):

maker; shaper (a person who makes things)

merchandiser; merchant (a businessperson engaged in retail trade)

 Context examples 

These two girls had been above an hour in the place, happily employed in visiting an opposite milliner, watching the sentinel on guard, and dressing a salad and cucumber.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

This other is a milliner’s account for thirty-seven pounds fifteen made out by Madame Lesurier, of Bond Street, to William Derbyshire.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

When I returned to London I called upon the milliner, who had recognised Straker as an excellent customer of the name of Derbyshire, who had a very dashing wife, with a strong partiality for expensive dresses.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The village of Longbourn was only one mile from Meryton; a most convenient distance for the young ladies, who were usually tempted thither three or four times a week, to pay their duty to their aunt and to a milliner's shop just over the way.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

I questioned Mrs. Straker as to the dress without her knowing it, and having satisfied myself that it had never reached her, I made a note of the milliner’s address, and felt that by calling there with Straker’s photograph I could easily dispose of the mythical Derbyshire.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)