milliner
    n 1: someone who makes and sells hats [syn: hatmaker,
         hatter, milliner, modiste]

Milliner \Mil"li*ner\, n. [From Milaner an inhabitant of Milan,
   in Italy; hence, a man from Milan who imported women's
   finery.]
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   1. Formerly, a man who imported and dealt in small articles
      of a miscellaneous kind, especially such as please the
      fancy of women. [Obs.]
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            No milliner can so fit his customers with gloves.
                                                  --Shak.
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   2. A person who designs, makes, trims, or deals in hats,
      bonnets, headdresses, etc., for women.
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   Man milliner, a man who makes or deals in millinery, that
      occupation having been at one time predominantly performed
      by women; hence, contemptuously, a man who is busied with
      trifling occupations or embellishments.
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