Definition of "millinery" []

• Articles, especially women's hats, sold by a milliner. (noun)
• The profession or business of a milliner. (noun)

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• "The students were "taught not only how to make attractive garments for themselves, but a trade by which they can support themselves" through a year-long course in millinery, dressmaking, or machine operation. 41 The timing of the course was planned so that after graduation in July, the girls would have some vacation time before the garment season began in the fall."
• "I said millinery, meaning your ribbons and finery."
• "He might perforate old dogmatical prejudices with a good deal of freedom so long as he did not begin bringing "millinery" into the service of the church."