Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A haberdasher's shop.
- n. The goods and wares sold by a haberdasher.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The goods and wares sold by a haberdasher; the business of a haberdasher.
- n. A haberdasher's shop.
Wiktionary
- n. ribbons, buttons, thread, needles and similar sewing goods sold in a haberdasher's shop.
- n. a shop selling such goods.
- n. a shop selling clothing and accessories for men.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The goods and wares sold by a haberdasher; also (Fig.), trifles.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a store where men's clothes are sold
- n. the drygoods sold by a haberdasher
Examples
“I run against Silver himself, all encompassed up in a spacious kind of haberdashery, leaning against a hotel and rubbing the half-moons on his nails with a silk handkerchief.”
“She had likewise an assortment of all kind of haberdashery wares; as hats, red caps, knit of”
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 08
“We were four at setting out from Paddington: but one of the servants was dispatched to prepossess an old servant of Sir Hargrave’s mother, at Colne-brook, who keeps there a kind of haberdashery shop; and where he proposed to get some refreshment for the lady, if he could make her take any.”
“Also, there’s a kind of haberdashery here in Washington-on-theBrazos.”
“I ran a hot iron quickly over the front of a previously worn shirt, saddened at the thought of the jolly staff at my local dry cleaner who will suffer because of my thrifty initiative and tolerance for rumpled, mildly aromatic haberdashery.”
“It was a deep and painful slump a young Army veteran, Harry S. Truman, lost his Kansas City haberdashery to bankruptcy, with the wholesale price index dropping by 37% and the measured rate of unemployment tripling to 12%.”
“The 1,500-square-meter former wallpaper factory is one of the finest examples of wealth-shame décor, with its rough bits of peeling plaster, cement floors and exposed beams housing a café selling used books, a florist, and fashion, home, cycling, children, fragrance and haberdashery sections.”
“Hawass wears brushed jeans, a pressed denim shirt, and his signature Indiana Jones hat, one he tells me is about to be licensed under his brand by a Chicago haberdashery.”
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“Just go to the market, or a haberdashery-store, buy some pretty buttons, and replace them.”
“The secrets of Jughead's haberdashery -- revealed!”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘haberdashery’.
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Very Silly Words
A list of very silly sounding words, as well as words that are fun to say
badot, gardyloo, dingbat, gaffer, kine, haberdashery, forsooth, whey-faced, hoddypeak, brouhaha, widdershins, decemnovenarianize and 115 more...
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old timey talk
Words or Sayings from the 1920's or whatever that no one really uses anymore (at least in that context).
scram, bearcat, heavens to betsy, dick, double-cross, ducky, gams, goofy, hooch, jalopy, john, joe and 174 more...
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A Time of Gifts
lambent, gonfalon, ait, eyrie, haberdashery, belfry, capstan, spinney, barbican, hobnail, wharf, waterlogged and 64 more...
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JimboBaggins's list
paraphenalia
haberdashery, desideratum, esoteric, retribution, retrograde, tetrahedron, iridescent, tentative, siphon, soothsayer, wanderlust, patina and 16 more...
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Shhh!
ashlar, flesh, shorn, haberdashery, mission, shackle, facial, passion, shuck, action, sheraton, cashew and 6 more...
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Words I love
Words that are fun to say or pleasing to my ear
haberdashery, tobacconist, lugubrious, sausage, oozing, gloam
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Sarah's list
bog, ginnel, screw, haberdashery, nincompoop, yacht, you sound fun are...
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Fashion
Words about fashion, style, or clothing
tonish, seasonal, tatterdemalion, outre, soi disant, beau monde, haberdashery
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