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millinery

/mil-uh-ner-ee, -nuh-ree/US // ˈmɪl əˌnɛr i, -nə ri //UK // (ˈmɪlɪnərɪ, -ɪnrɪ) //

鞋厂,纺织厂,炼油厂,女装

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : women's hats and other articles made or sold by milliners.
    • : the business or trade of a milliner.

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Examples

  • Atop her head sat an upturned, dented little metal bucket—recycling turned into millinery.

  • Pippa wore a hat embroidered with butterflies, by Madeleine Millinery, and a gold sequinned dress.

  • Thirty trunks—constructed to house everything from crinolines and corsets, to dresses and millinery—are piled high.

  • From where he sat he could look across at the muddy car standing before a closed millinery-and-drygoods store.

  • It is very difficult for her to do this if she has had no training in dressmaking or in millinery.

  • Girls in such a circle could all help in blouse making or in millinery.

  • She had picked up some of the ends of her burnt millinery, which she used to barter for food as they went along.

  • I think they must have opened a store; for she spoke of having on hand a valuable stock of millinery and medicines.