Meaning & use
millinery
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The craft or business of designing and making hats, or the hats themselves.
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The shop specialized in millinery, with hand-trimmed hats in the window.
She studied millinery to learn how to shape and block felt into hats.
A note on using this word
A person who makes hats is called a milliner; the word now sounds old-fashioned, since hat-making is a much less common trade than it once was.
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hatmaking
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