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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 468 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MILLINER , originally a dealer in goods from the See also:

city of See also:Milan in See also:Italy, whence the name. Such goods were chiefly See also:steel See also:work, including See also:cutlery, needles, also arms and See also:armour and textile fabrics, See also:ribbons, gloves and " Milan bonnets." The " milliners " of See also:London, though never formed into a See also:Livery See also:Company seem to have been associated with the " Cappers and Hurers," which later were amalgamated with the " Haber-dashers " (q.v.). Minsheu's derivation of the word from See also:milk, thousand (" as having a thousand small wares to sell "), though a typical instance of guessing etymologies, shows the See also:miscellaneous See also:character of their See also:trade in, the 16th and 17th centuries. The See also:modern use of the word is confined chiefly to one who makes and sells bonnets and hats for See also:women; but articles of "millinery" include ribbons, laces, &c., usually retailed by haberdashers.

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