Milliner

Mil′li-ner

,

Noun.

[From

Milaner

an inhabitant of

Milan

, in Italy; hence, a man from

Milan

who imported women’s finery.]

1.

Formerly, a man who imported and dealt in small articles of a miscellaneous kind, especially such as please the fancy of women.

[Obs.]

No

milliner

can so fit his customers with gloves.

Shakespeare

2.

A person who designs, makes, trims, or deals in hats, bonnets, headdresses, etc., for women.

,

Noun.

[Johnson supposes this word to be Milaner, form Milan, in Italy.] A woman who makes and sells head-dresses,hats or bonnets, &c. for females.

milliner ‎(plural milliners)

A person who is involved in the manufacture, design, or sale of hats for women.
- 1922, Sinclair Lewis, “19”, in Babbitt:
  They went to a musical comedy and nudged each other at the matrimonial jokes and the prohibition jokes; they paraded the lobby, arm in arm, between acts, and in the glee of his first release from the shame which dissevers fathers and sons Ted chuckled, "Dad, did you ever hear the one about the three milliners and the judge?"