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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.
A milliner Milliner是製作和販售女帽的人 is someone who makes and sells women's hats — the shaped, dressed kind for a wedding or a race day是那種有造型、有裝飾，適合婚禮或賽馬日戴的帽子, not a baseball cap from a sports shop不是運動用品店賣的棒球帽。The word這個字 feels a little old and a little special給人的感覺有點老派、有點特別; you你 meet it in stories, costume work, and history在故事、服裝設計、和歷史裡遇到它 more than in everyday chat比在日常聊天裡多。
There is a verb too, to milliner, meaning to make or deal in those hats, but almost nobody uses the verb now.
There is a verb too也有一個動詞, to milliner, meaning to make or deal in those hatsto milliner，意思是製作或買賣那些帽子, but almost nobody uses the verb now但現在幾乎沒人用這個動詞了。
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.
Though actually不過其實, the name這個名字 has nothing to do with a mill that grinds flour跟磨麵粉的磨坊一點關係都沒有。It它 comes from Milan, the Italian city來自Milan，也就是義大利的米蘭: long ago很久以前, people from Milan米蘭人 brought fine women's clothes and hats to England把精緻的女裝和帽子帶到英國, and a "Milaner"「Milaner」 slowly became milliner慢慢就變成了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.
原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，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
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A surname.
millinernoun/ˈmɪlɪnə/
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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; […]
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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/
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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.
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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.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。