millinery

English

Etymology

From milliner +‎ -y (nominalizer).

Pronunciation

• (American) IPA^(key): /ˈmɪl.nɚˌi/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈmɪl.ɪ.nɚ.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.
   • 1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 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?"

Hypernyms

• hatmaking

Translations

Women's hats

• Bulgarian: дамски шапки (damski šapki)
• Irish: hataí ban m pl

A shop with women's hats

• German: Hutgeschäft (de) n, Modewaren pl, Modewarengeschäft n, Boutique (de) f
• Irish: siopa hataí m
• Spanish: boneteria

The business and work that a milliner engages in

• Bulgarian: шапкарство n (šapkarstvo)
• German: Hutmacherei (de) f
• Irish: haitéireacht f

See also

• haberdashery