millineryとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈmɪl.nɚˌi/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈmɪl.ɪ.nɚ.i/

名詞

millinery (countable and uncountable, plural millineries)

1. Women's hats.
   • 2025 August 10, Molly Jong-Fast, “Donald Trump, Julian Fellowes and the Gilded Age Finale”, in The New York Times‎, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:

     The show is worth watching for Agnes van Rhijn’s withering propriety and Bertha Russell’s dresses and millinery alone.

     (Can we archive this URL?)

2. (countable) A shop selling women's hats.
3. (uncountable) The business and work that a milliner engages in.
   • 1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 471:

     They used to tell one about a kid asking his grumpy old man when they were walking to the park, "What's the name of this flower, Papa?" And the old guy is peevish and he yells, "How should I know? Am I in the milinery business?"

上位語

• hatmaking

参考

• haberdashery