milliner

• She was the daughter of Sophie-Victoire Delaborde milliner, the grandchild of a certain bird-seller on the Quai des Oiseaux, who used to keep a public-house, and she was the great-granddaughter of Mere Cloquart This double heredity was personified in the two women who shared George Sand's childish affection. —  George Sand, Some Aspects of Her Life and Writings
• The word "milliner" - a women's hat maker-first appeared in 1529 and is a reference to Milan, Italy, which was renowned for the straw from which hats were made.
• So my mother kept me at home, and my career as a milliner was blighted This was during our last year in Russia, when I was between twelve and thirteen years of age. —  The Promised Land
• They talked, too, as if it were a flirtation with a milliner--dangerous enough to be troublesome, yet too absurd to be really dangerous--discreditable no doubt to Dick, but--she detected the underlying thought--still more discreditable to Daisy Medland. —  Half a Hero A Novel
• A druggist is not like a hatter or a milliner, or a theatre or a work of art; he is above criticism; you can't run down his opium and dyewoods, nor cocoa beans, paint, and pepper. —  Lost Illusions

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