What does milliner mean?
Definitions for milliner
ˈmɪl ə nərmilliner
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Princeton's WordNet
hatmaker, hatter, milliner, modistenoun
someone who makes and sells hats
Wiktionary
millinernoun
A person who is involved in the manufacture, design, or sale of hats for women.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Millinernoun
One who sells ribands and dresses for women.
Etymology: I believe from Milaner, an inhabitant of Milan, as a Lombard is a banker.
He was perfumed like a milliner;
And, ’twixt his finger and his thumb, he held
A pouncet box, which ever and anon
He gave his nose. William Shakespeare, Henry IV. p. i.The mercers and milliners complain of her want of publick spirit. Tatler, №. 52.
Wikipedia
milliner
Hat-making or millinery is the design, manufacture and sale of hats and other headwear. A person engaged in this trade is called a milliner or hatter. Historically, milliners, typically women shopkeepers, produced or imported an inventory of garments for men, women, and children and sold these garments in their millinery shop. Many milliners worked as both milliner and fashion designer, such as Rose Bertin, Jeanne Lanvin, and Coco Chanel. The millinery industry benefited from industrialization during the nineteenth century. In 1889 in London and Paris, over 8,000 women were employed in millinery, and in 1900 in New York, some 83,000 people, mostly women, were employed in millinery. Though the improvements in technology provided benefits to milliners and the whole industry, essential skills, craftsmanship, and creativity are still required. Since the mass-manufacturing of hats began, the term milliner is usually used to describe a person who applies traditional hand-craftsmanship to design, make, sell or trim hats primarily for a mostly female clientele. The term milliner, originally from "Milener", originally meant someone from Milan, in northern Italy, in the early 16th century. It referred to Milanese merchants who sold fancy bonnets, gloves, jewellery and cutlery. In the 16th to 18th centuries, the meaning of milliner gradually changed from a foreign merchant to a dealer in small articles relating to dress. Although the term originally applied to men, milliner came to mean a woman who makes and sells bonnets and other headgear for women since 1713.
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milliner
A milliner is an individual, traditionally a woman, who designs, makes or sells women's hats. This term is also used to refer to a person who owns or works in a shop that sells women's clothing accessories, in addition to hats. The craft of millinery involves making and designing fashionable hats and headwear with traditional handcraft skills and modern tools.
Webster Dictionary
Millinernoun
formerly, a man who imported and dealt in small articles of a miscellaneous kind, especially such as please the fancy of women
Millinernoun
a person, usually a woman, who makes, trims, or deals in hats, bonnets, headdresses, etc., for women
Etymology: [From Milaner an inhabitant of Milan, in Italy; hence, a man from Milan who imported women's finery.]
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Milliner
mil′in-ėr, n. one who makes head-dresses, bonnets, &c. for women.—n. Mill′inery, the articles made or sold by milliners: the industry of making these. [Prob. orig. Milaner, a trader in Milan wares, esp. silks and ribbons.]
Etymology and Origins
Milliner
A corruption of Milaner, after the city of Milan, which at one time set the fashion throughout Europe for elegance and taste not only in matters of dress, but of art. A milliner is one who deals in hats, feathers, and ribbons. See “Mercer.”
Surnames Frequency by Census Records
MILLINER
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Milliner is ranked #12775 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
The Milliner surname appeared 2,415 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 1 would have the surname Milliner.
51.6% or 1,247 total occurrences were White.
42.3% or 1,022 total occurrences were Black.
3.3% or 80 total occurrences were of two or more races.
2% or 50 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
0.3% or 8 total occurrences were Asian.
0.3% or 8 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of milliner in Chaldean Numerology is: 6
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of milliner in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2
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