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milliner
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Definition:a women's hat maker, designer or seller
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My principal errand was a visit to the milliner's, where I wished to see a bonnet I had ordered, before it was sent home.
T.S. Arther. Trials and Confessions of a Housekeeper (1859)
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The village of Longbourn was only one mile from Meryton; a most convenient distance for the young ladies, who were usually tempted thither three or four times a week, to pay their duty to their aunt and to a milliner's shop just over the way.
Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice (1813)
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After Wicklow lane the window of Madame Doyle, courtdress milliner, stopped him. He stood looking in at the two puckers stripped to their pelts and putting up their props.
James Joyce. Ulysses
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