milliner:
(plural: ‘milliners‘)
a person who makes and/or sells hats, mostly women’s hats,
a milliner at work
e.g.
A milliner likes to be called a ‘hat designer’, but not very happy if called a ‘hat maker’, because a milliner originally designed clothes and hats not just made and sold only hats.
A private milliner these days is a highly respected professional who not only makes hats but also designs clothing for a select group of rich people.
Though the fashion of wearing hats has become out-dated in most parts of the world, milliners do good business in fashion designing, designing different types of hats for fashion models, and for the film actors who need to wear different and novel hats to suit the characters they do!
For a blog post that explains the true meaning of a milliner, please click here, for an article that explains what a milliner is, please click here, for an article that discusses the career profile of milliners, please click here and for a news article that shows us how we come across this word in our daily browsing, please click here. (For an article about ‘millinery’, the art and science of hat making, please click here.)
Compare: hatter
Note: ‘Milliner’, always with a capital ‘M’, is often found in the names of people, e.g. Jenny Milliner, Leslie Milliner, Joseph Milliner, etc. For an article that discusses this word as the surname/family name/last name in Britian, please click here.
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