millinery
nounUS /ˈmɪl.nɚˌi/
Etymology From milliner + -y (nominalizer).
1
Women's hats.
- The show is worth watching for Agnes van Rhijn’s withering propriety and Bertha Russell’s dresses and millinery alone.2025 August 10, Molly Jong-Fast, “Donald Trump, Julian Fellowes and the Gilded Age Finale”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
2
A shop selling women's hats.
3
The business and work that a milliner engages in.
- 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?"1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 471:
- Related terms
- haberdashery
- Hypernyms
- hatmaking