I said millinery, meaning your ribbons and finery. From Wordnik.com. [Marjorie's Busy Days] Reference
And I believe you are engaged in some kind of millinery business. From Wordnik.com. [In the Year of Jubilee] Reference
There are only a few kinds of improper "millinery" feathers that it is possible to sell here under the law. From Wordnik.com. [Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation] Reference
Also, Mrs. Pick had a millinery store just about here. From Wordnik.com. [A Portrait of Old George Town] Reference
It is used in the millinery trade, and is made into hats. From Wordnik.com. [Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades] Reference
I think a combination of the two lead to my flavor of millinery. From Wordnik.com. [Max Padilla: Lady Gaga Meat Dress Designer's Lips Are Zipped About Animal Rights] Reference
Girls in such a circle could all help in blouse making or in millinery. From Wordnik.com. [The Canadian Girl at Work A Book of Vocational Guidance] Reference
The latter have a great many shops of mercery, haberdashery, and millinery. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of a Voyage to Brazil And Residence There During Part of the Years 1821, 1822, 1823] Reference
There were butcher shops, millinery shops and shops where they mended shoes. From Wordnik.com. ["The Red Watch" With the First Canadian Division in Flanders] Reference
For fifty years the demand for plumes for millinery purposes has been growing. From Wordnik.com. [Conservation Reader] Reference
= A thin, soft-finished silk fabric of a veiling kind, now used as millinery lining. From Wordnik.com. [Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades] Reference
But girls know that they still have mending, sewing, dressmaking and millinery to do. From Wordnik.com. [The Canadian Girl at Work A Book of Vocational Guidance] Reference
She was vainer and more frivolous and dreadfully tired of working in a millinery shop in. From Wordnik.com. [The Camp Fire Girls in the Outside World] Reference
Sustained by this fact the young lady, who, in addition to the shoes and millinery, wore only. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman's Journey through the Philippines On a Cable Ship that Linked Together the Strange Lands Seen En Route] Reference
It is very difficult for her to do this if she has had no training in dressmaking or in millinery. From Wordnik.com. [The Canadian Girl at Work A Book of Vocational Guidance] Reference
In the better millinery establishments the girls are laid off without wages six weeks or two months. From Wordnik.com. [The Canadian Girl at Work A Book of Vocational Guidance] Reference
A rush to a wholesale millinery just off Fifth Avenue — the only millinery advertising for learners. From Wordnik.com. [Working With the Working Woman] Reference
Also we must state our last position, what sort of millinery jobs we expected to get, and what salary. From Wordnik.com. [Working With the Working Woman] Reference
Here a rustle of millinery, approaching through the drawing-room beyond, cut short old Ryan's confidences. From Wordnik.com. [The Spinner's Book of Fiction] Reference
The girl who can afford to remain at school may take a course in millinery at a trade or technical school. From Wordnik.com. [The Canadian Girl at Work A Book of Vocational Guidance] Reference
His dress was rigidly plain, and his wife was not indulged in the vanities of millinery and mantua-making. From Wordnik.com. [Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays] Reference
Milliners are employed in the millinery department and fitters and dressmakers in the alteration departments. From Wordnik.com. [The Canadian Girl at Work A Book of Vocational Guidance] Reference
The night classes which have been offered at the school gave training in the more advanced lines of millinery. From Wordnik.com. [The Making of a Trade School] Reference
"Well, I never before met a woman who would deliberately flout her neighbours by wearing preposterous millinery!". From Wordnik.com. [The Daughters of Danaus] Reference
For awhile this downfall of view-obstructing millinery promised a "square deal" to the occupants of the back rows. From Wordnik.com. [Etiquette] Reference
A point of the first importance to the girl who means to be a milliner is the fact that millinery is a seasonal trade. From Wordnik.com. [The Canadian Girl at Work A Book of Vocational Guidance] Reference
For the same reason every girl should learn something about the making of hats and of the materials used in millinery. From Wordnik.com. [The Canadian Girl at Work A Book of Vocational Guidance] Reference
Various phases of work in dressmaking, electric power operating, novelty, and millinery are made "centers of interest.". From Wordnik.com. [The Making of a Trade School] Reference
The girl who leaves school at fourteen may find a place as messenger girl in a millinery shop or a millinery department. From Wordnik.com. [The Canadian Girl at Work A Book of Vocational Guidance] Reference
The aspect of the ladies, gallantry and an imperfect acquaintance with the language of millinery forbid one to criticise. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873] Reference
The light cardboard or chip boxes now used to carry millinery were formerly made to carry the neck-bands, whence the name of "band-box.". From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference
The milliner in charge of a department or one who is managing an exclusive millinery shop of recognized standing, receives a high salary. From Wordnik.com. [The Canadian Girl at Work A Book of Vocational Guidance] Reference
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