millinery

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   women's hats and related decorative headwear considered collectively

   The museum displayed Victorian dresses alongside elaborate feathered millinery.

2. 2
   noun

   the craft, trade, or business of designing, making, and selling women's hats

   She trained in millinery before opening a small hat shop.

From milliner + -y. A milliner was originally a dealer in fine goods associated with Milan, Italy; the occupation later specialized in making and selling women's hats, and millinery came to name both the trade and its wares.

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