喜樂美語
  1. 1女帽商；女帽設計師。做、賣女用禮帽的人，不是賣棒球帽的店。

    A milliner is someone who makes and sells women’s hats — the shaped, dressed kind for a wedding or a race day, not a baseball cap from a sports shop. The word feels a little old and a little special; you meet it in stories, costume work, and history more than in everyday chat. There is a verb too, to milliner, meaning to make or deal in those hats, but almost nobody uses the verb now. Though actually, the name has nothing to do with a mill that grinds flour. It comes from Milan, the Italian city: long ago, people from Milan brought fine women’s clothes and hats to England, and a “Milaner” slowly became milliner.

組成A later form of Milaner, once “a person from Milan,” from Milan + -er. English then used it for people who sold Milan’s fine women’s clothes and hats. The verb comes from this noun. Not mill + -er.

同家族的字

  • millinerythe hats, or the trade of making and selling them
  • Milanthe Italian city hidden in the old name

原始詞典資料5 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

Millinername

  • 1

    A surname.

millinernoun/ˈmɪlɪnə/

  • 1

    archaicA person who sells (women's) apparel, accessories, and other decorative goods, especially those originally manufactured in Milan.

    • He hath ſongs for man, or vvoman, of all ſizes: No Milliner can ſo fit his cuſtomers vvith Gloues: […]
    • Hoſt. Here comes my vvife and daughter. / […] / Clovv[n]. She is a pretty lure to dravv cuſtome to your ordinary. / Hoſt. Doſt think I keep her to that purpoſe? / Clovv. VVhen a Dove-houſe is empty, there is cumin-ſeed uſed to purloine from the reſt of the neighbours; […] A Milliner has choice of Monkies, and Paraketoes; […]
  • 2

    A person involved in the design, manufacture, or sale of hats for women.

    • The Milliner muſt be thoroughly verſed in Phyſiognomy; in the Choice of Ribbons ſhe muſt have a particular regard to the Complexion, and muſt ever be mindful to cut the Head-dreſs to the Dimentions of the Face.
    • The great difficulty generally experienced by amateur milliners in lining bonnets, is mainly attributable to the error of fixing the lining in the first instance to the edge of the bonnet, instead of arranging it previously at the head part.

millinerverb/ˈmɪlɪnə/

  • 1

    archaicTo manufacture (women's apparel, specifically hats); also, to supply (someone) with women's apparel, specifically hats.

    • We pass over his ridiculous observation […] that Sallust has been "man-millinered by Dr. [Henry] Steuart;" for on what we do not understand we can make no remarks.
    • In the east, the only "study of mankind, is man." They have no Miss [Maria] Edgeworth, nor any of those millinering cutters-out of human nature into certain patterns of given rules in education.
  • 2

    archaicTo adorn or decorate (something).

    • We would not have Poesy to be greatly millinered, whatever fashions other ladies may adopt; and when we meet her corseted in the iron framework of the sonnet's rhymes, and crinolined about with the unyielding drapery of its fourteen lines, we feel that she is no doubt elegantly dressed, but we long to see her in any other attire she is wont to put on.

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