Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: milliner
IPA transcription: [m'ɪlɪnɚ]
noun meaning of the word
  • 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.