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haberdasher

/hab-er-dash-er/US // ˈhæb ərˌdæʃ ər //UK // (ˈhæbəˌdæʃə) //

缝纫工人,纺织工,洗衣店老板,缝纫工

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a retail dealer in men's furnishings, as shirts, ties, gloves, socks, and hats.
    • : Chiefly British. a dealer in small wares and notions.

Examples

  • He looked, that dreadful afternoon, as if he had just come from his barber, tailor and haberdasher.

  • In the buildup to the 1946 midterms, the failed haberdasher with a funny accent from western Missouri was extremely unpopular.

  • In his teens he was despatched to London to serve his apprenticeship to a haberdasher in Lawrence Lane.

  • The two young men enter at the bar, take modest lodgings in the house of a haberdasher, and become the heroes of the story.

  • There's a haberdasher's wife of small wit near him, that railed upon me till her Pink'd porringer fell off her head.

  • In the other corner, by the writing-desk, stood the hatter and the haberdasher with their heads together.

  • The haberdasher looked Mr. Magee fully in the eye, and the latter was startled by the hostility he saw in the other's face.