Used in a Sentence

millinery

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for millinery.

Editorial note

It is surely the case that in the context of millinery, they do not.

Examples12
Definitions3
Parts of speech1

Quick take

Women's hats.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of millinery gathered in one view.

noun

Women's hats.

noun

(uncountable) The business and work that a milliner engages in.

noun

(countable) A shop selling women's hats.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for millinery.

noun

Women's hats.

noun

(uncountable) The business and work that a milliner engages in.

noun

(countable) A shop selling women's hats.

Example sentences

1

It is surely the case that in the context of millinery, they do not.

2

Is a head cannon a device for projecting noggins or an article of millinery?

3

Anyone who wears clothes (from streetwear brands like All Saints that do jeans and t shirts to D&G to bridalwear to millinery to anything in between).

4

That HN readers are unusually interested in millinery.

5

When I was younger, a friend's dad used to run a millinery.

6

My tin foil millinery habit is entirely unrelated.

7

For all I know, some of those people would have perked right up if the subject matter were milling, millinery or masonry moving millier-weights of stone.

8

That isn't a full explanation as it is much like saying that Harold's Millinery of Saville Row has to close because no-one is wearing hats, but the name is well known and maybe it's time to start selling scarves, ties and what-not.

9

These seem to be mummies wearing pointy hats that were therefore called witches as shorthand for identification, not mummies of supposed witches who happened to mysteriously share millinery choices with 16th century European imagery.

10

> but being so extremely cynical of all content creation and public statements is 1) not healthy for your worldview, basically second cousin to tinfoil millinery and 2) simply not reflective of what most of us genuinely believe we are doing when we do it Oh, for sure.

Quote examples

1

We have an actual "indie millinery shop" in my city.

2

When I was a kid, it was still the heyday of department stores like Lytton, Goldblatt,and Marshall Field which had their own candy shop selling their own candies, and a department called "millinery." Some of these stores were notably stuffy and seemed to cater to my grandmother's generation.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use millinery in a sentence?

It is surely the case that in the context of millinery, they do not.

What does millinery mean?

Women's hats.

What part of speech is millinery?

millinery is commonly used as noun.