Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A haberdasher's shop.
- noun The goods and wares sold by a haberdasher.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The goods and wares sold by a haberdasher; the business of a haberdasher.
- noun A haberdasher's shop.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The goods and wares sold by a haberdasher; also (Fig.), trifles.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
Ribbons ,buttons ,thread ,needles and similarsewing goods sold in ahaberdasher 'sshop . - noun A shop selling such goods.
- noun A shop selling
clothing andaccessories for men, including hats.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a store where men's clothes are sold
- noun the drygoods sold by a haberdasher
Etymologies
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Examples
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I run against Silver himself, all encompassed up in a spacious kind of haberdashery, leaning against a hotel and rubbing the half-moons on his nails with a silk handkerchief.
Strictly business: more stories of the four million O. Henry 1886
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She had likewise an assortment of all kind of haberdashery wares; as hats, red caps, knit of
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 08 Robert Kerr 1784
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We were four at setting out from Paddington: but one of the servants was dispatched to prepossess an old servant of Sir Hargrave’s mother, at Colne-brook, who keeps there a kind of haberdashery shop; and where he proposed to get some refreshment for the lady, if he could make her take any.
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Also, there’s a kind of haberdashery here in Washington-on-theBrazos.
The Berrybender Narratives Larry McMurtry 2004
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Hawass wears brushed jeans, a pressed denim shirt, and his signature Indiana Jones hat, one he tells me is about to be licensed under his brand by a Chicago haberdashery.
Richard Bangs: Quest for the Lord of the Nile, Part II Richard Bangs 2011
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Hawass wears brushed jeans, a pressed denim shirt, and his signature Indiana Jones hat, one he tells me is about to be licensed under his brand by a Chicago haberdashery.
Richard Bangs: Quest for the Lord of the Nile, Part II Richard Bangs 2011
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I ran a hot iron quickly over the front of a previously worn shirt, saddened at the thought of the jolly staff at my local dry cleaner who will suffer because of my thrifty initiative and tolerance for rumpled, mildly aromatic haberdashery.
Capitalism and My Discontents Rick Moranis 2012
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Just go to the market, or a haberdashery-store, buy some pretty buttons, and replace them.
about that package nathreee 2010
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It was a deep and painful slump a young Army veteran, Harry S. Truman, lost his Kansas City haberdashery to bankruptcy, with the wholesale price index dropping by 37% and the measured rate of unemployment tripling to 12%.
Follow the Money James Grant 2011
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The 1,500-square-meter former wallpaper factory is one of the finest examples of wealth-shame décor, with its rough bits of peeling plaster, cement floors and exposed beams housing a café selling used books, a florist, and fashion, home, cycling, children, fragrance and haberdashery sections.
Hiding Wealth Behind Wear and Tear Helen Kirwan-Taylor 2011
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