millinery

• It recognizes that the art applied in dressmaking differs from that in millinery, and this again from that required for decorating jewelry boxes and calendars. —  The Making of a Trade School
• Christian Scientists are Transcendentalists whose distinguishing point is that they secrete millinery--California quail with rainbow tints and topknots, Balboaic instincts well defined Let this fact stand: it was Emerson who made Concord. —  Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8
• I said millinery, meaning your ribbons and finery. —  Marjorie's Busy Days
• Here they are different: they have large glass fronts, like a millinery or cut-glass shop with us, and the shop runs back thirty or forty feet, its sides being filled with coffins standing on end, mahogany and French polished. —  Diary in America, Series One
• I have rather a fancy for millinery, and one of those large establishments might take me, while you could go as a daily governess," regarding her sister doubtfully Governess! —  Molly Bawn

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