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millinered

millinered is the simple past and past participle of milliner.

Meaning of milliner

Verb

milliner (third-person singular simple present milliners, present participle millinering, simple past and past participle millinered)

  1. (archaic, transitive) To manufacture (women's apparel, specifically hats); also, to supply (someone) with women's apparel, specifically hats.
    • We pass over his ridiculous observation […] that Sallust has been "man-millinered by Dr. [Henry] Steuart;" for on what we do not understand we can make no remarks.1806 December, “Steuart’s Sallust, and The Eclectic Review”, in The Anti-Jacobin Review and Magazine, or, Monthly Political and Literary Censor, volume XXV, number CII, London: […] B. M‘Millan, […]...
  2. (archaic, figuratively, transitive) To adorn or decorate (something).
    • We would not have Poesy to be greatly millinered, whatever fashions other ladies may adopt; and when we meet her corseted in the iron framework of the sonnet's rhymes, and crinolined about with the unyielding drapery of its fourteen lines, we feel that she is no doubt elegantly dressed, but we long...1867 April, “Reviews and Literary Notices. The Book of the Sonnet. Edited by Leigh Hunt and S[amuel] Adams Lee. Boston: Roberts Brothers.”, in The Atlantic Monthly. A Magazine of Literature, Art, and...

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Questions about millinered

What is millinered the simple past and past participle of?
Millinered is the simple past and past participle of milliner.

Words near millinered in the dictionary

  1. millimètres
  2. Millin
  3. milline
  4. milliner
  5. milliner's
  6. millinered
  7. millineress
  8. millineresses
  9. millinerial
  10. millineric
  11. millineries

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