Meanings
plural Milaners
- obsoleteSynonym of Milanese (“an inhabitant or native of Milan”).
Troth ſiſter I heard you vvere married to a very rich chuffe, and I vvas ſorry for it, that I had no better clothes, and that made mee ſend: for you knovv vve Millaners loue to ſtrut vpon Spaniſh leather.
1604 (date written), Tho[mas] Dekker, [Thomas Middleton], The Honest Whore. […] (4th quarto), London: […] Nicholas Okes for Robert Basse, […], published 1616, →OCLC, Act I, signature [A4], verso1 more example
"I had something to say to thee, Smith—Canst thou take up a fallen link in my Milan hauberk?" / "As well, please your Highness, as my mother could take up a stitch in the nets she wove—The Milaner shall not know my work from his own."
1828 May 15, [Walter Scott], chapter X, in Chronicles of the Canongate. Second Series. […] (The Fair Maid of Perth), volume I, Edinburgh: […] [Ballantyne and Co.] for Cadell and Co.; London: Simpkin and Marshall, →OCLC, page 295Synonyms: Milanese
Synonyms & antonyms
nounSynonym of Milanese (“an inhabitant or native of Milan”).
Origin
- Middle EnglishMilener
- EnglishMilaner
From Late Middle English Milener, Miloner (“native of Milan”), from Milan + -er(e) (suffix denoting an inhabitant or resident). The English word is analysable as Milan + -er.
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Milaner. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Milaner
“Milaner.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Milaner. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Milaner,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Milaner.
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