01 n. Formerly, a man who imported and dealt in small articles of a miscellaneous kind, especially such as please the fancy of women.
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Formerly, a man who imported and dealt in small articles of a miscellaneous kind, especially such as please the fancy of women.[Obs.]“No milliner can so fit his customers with gloves.” — Shak.
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2.
A person who designs, makes, trims, or deals in hats, bonnets, headdresses, etc., for women.
Phrases & compounds
Man milliner —
a man who makes or deals in millinery, that occupation having been at one time predominantly performed by women; hence, contemptuously, a man who is busied with trifling occupations or embellishments.