different between milliners vs millinery

milliners

English

Noun

milliners

  1. plural of milliner

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millinery

English

Etymology

milliner +? -y ((nominalizer))

Pronunciation

  • (American) IPA(key): /?m?ln???i/; (General American) IPA(key): /?m?l?n??i/

Noun

millinery (countable and uncountable, plural millineries)

  1. Women's hats.
  2. (countable) A shop selling women's hats.
  3. (uncountable) The business and work that a milliner engages in.
    • 1975, Saul Bellow, Humboldt's Gift [Avon ed., 1976, p. 471]:
      They used to tell one about a kid asking his grumpy old man when they were walking to the park, "What's the name of this flower, Papa?" And the old guy is peevish and he yells, "How should I know? Am I in the milinery business?"

Hyponyms

  • hatmaking

Translations

See also

  • haberdashery

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