MILLINERY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does millinery mean? 

• MILLINERY (noun)
  The noun MILLINERY has 2 senses:

1. shop selling women's hats

2. hats for women; the wares sold by a milliner

  Familiarity information: MILLINERY used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MILLINERY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Shop selling women's hats

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

hat shop; millinery

Hypernyms ("millinery" is a kind of...):

shop; store (a mercantile establishment for the retail sale of goods or services)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Hats for women; the wares sold by a milliner

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

millinery; woman's hat

Hypernyms ("millinery" is a kind of...):

chapeau; hat; lid (headdress that protects the head from bad weather; has shaped crown and usually a brim)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "millinery"):

church hat (a fanciful hat of the kind worn by Black women for Sunday worship)

cloche (a woman's close-fitting hat that resembles a helmet)

picture hat (a woman's dressy hat with a wide brim)

pillbox; toque; turban (a small round woman's hat)

 Context examples 

"She is trying to like politics for my sake, so I'll try and like millinery for hers, that's only fair," thought John the Just, adding aloud, "That's very pretty. Is it what you call a breakfast cap?"

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Everybody acquainted with Bath may remember the difficulties of crossing Cheap Street at this point; it is indeed a street of so impertinent a nature, so unfortunately connected with the great London and Oxford roads, and the principal inn of the city, that a day never passes in which parties of ladies, however important their business, whether in quest of pastry, millinery, or even (as in the present case) of young men, are not detained on one side or other by carriages, horsemen, or carts.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)