Someone who makes or mends dresses.
Someone who makes and sells hats.
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Examples for "milliner "
Examples for "milliner "
1 Sometimes, the milliner and the jeweller are at the bottom of it.
2 But I only got six francs; my milliner had all the rest.
3 It may be a cast-back to the principles of the milliner mother.
4 It's probably their way of taking their hats off to the milliner .
5 The milliner would have it there was nothing beside that fitted me.
1 Its current owner, Sir Percival Aspern, had been a hatter by trade.
2 Then he went to the shoemaker, to the hatter , to the haberdasher.
3 He'd actually become a hatter purely because of the association with madness.
4 Andrea had long loved her, but the hatter clung outrageously to life.
5 I retreat to my hotel; send for boot-maker, hatter , tailor, and hair-cutter.
1 No hatmaker in the colonies may have more than two apprentices at once.
2 She had been a hatmaker in a village near his birthplace-Montauban.
3 In one recess Leybl the hatmaker 's poker-stiff dog Ashmodai awaited the spring thaw for its burial.
4 First the blacksmith and now the hatmaker .
5 A psychotic hatmaker poisoned by mercury.
Person who makes or sells women's clothing, especially dresses or hats.
1 He had now uncovered the slight figure of the little French modiste .
2 The ragdealer's daughter, Justa by name, was a modiste in a shop.
3 This wonderful modiste , whose taste in modes was exquisite, was Mademoiselle Bertin.
4 From her condition, a modiste cannot dispense with being amiable, gracious, engaging.
5 When they came out of the milliner's or modiste 's , Fred was waiting.
6 The set showed the elaborately fitted establishment of a fashionable modiste .
7 They find the modiste , who inspects her new customers and is all suavity.
8 He still thought she meant she was not the modiste , just her errand-girl.
9 He thought she was the little errand-girl from Madam Bailey's modiste .
10 How many of the peasant dresses have given an idea to the modiste !
11 His father was an electrician and his mother was a modiste .
12 I want to start my modiste in good time to catch the home-coming people.
13 Before attempting to appear at Court, the American woman should consult a reliable modiste .
14 Your majesty would receive a modiste in your reception room!
15 A fashionable modiste should be consulted in the emergency.
16 DORCAS, a modiste who founded the church gossip societies.
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