Synonyms:
hatmaker, hatter, milliner, modiste
Meaning: someone who makes and sells hats
Usage examples
'As a milliner's girl; why not?
"A mouse!" gasped the milliner, trembling with terror.
'As a milliner's girl?' Elsie asked, with a face of red horror.
I think I should do better in London; at some respectable milliner's, if I could be properly recommended.
So the poor milliner's wares, although beautified by lace and ribbons, are worthless unless you are perched upon them."
He could not wrong the birds by sending them back to the milliner, nor did he wish the milliner to suffer by their loss.
To be sure, wicked men shot and stuffed us, and sold us to the milliner; but the idea of our being her property is nonsense!"
"Alas!" cried the other, who was the milliner, "no one will buy my hats partly trimmed, for the fashion is to wear birds upon them.
That will afford relief to your poor milliner and at the same time set free thousands of our darling birds who have been so cruelly used."
To see so many of his little friends shut up in a glass case annoyed and grieved Popopo, who had no idea they had purposely been placed upon the hats by the milliner.