Meanings
plural millineries
- countableuncountableWomen's hats.
The show is worth watching for Agnes van Rhijn’s withering propriety and Bertha Russell’s dresses and millinery alone.
2025 August 10, Molly Jong-Fast, “Donald Trump, Julian Fellowes and the Gilded Age Finale”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC - countableA shop selling women's hats.
- uncountableThe business and work that a milliner engages in.
They used to tell one about a kid asking his grumpy old man when they were walking to the park, "What's the name of this flower, Papa?" And the old guy is peevish and he yells, "How should I know? Am I in the milinery business?"
1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 471
Synonyms & antonyms
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
From milliner + -y (nominalizer).
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Bulgarian дамски шапки, шапкарство
- дамски шапки (damski šapki)Women's hats
- шапкарство (šapkarstvo)The business and work that a milliner engages in
German Hutgeschäft, Modewaren
- HutgeschäftA shop with women's hats
- ModewarenA shop with women's hats
- ModewarengeschäftA shop with women's hats
- BoutiqueA shop with women's hats
- HutmachereiThe business and work that a milliner engages in
Irish hataí ban, siopa hataí
- hataí banWomen's hats
- siopa hataíA shop with women's hats
- haitéireachtThe business and work that a milliner engages in
Spanish boneteria
- boneteriaA shop with women's hats
Cite this entry
millinery. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/millinery
“millinery.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/millinery. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “millinery,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/millinery.
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