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Milliner

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A corruption of Milʹaner; so called from Milʹan, in Italy, which at one time gave the law to Europe in all matters of taste, dress, and elegance.

⁂ Milliner was originally applied to the male sex; hence Ben Jonson, in Every Man in his Humour, i. 3, speaks of a “milliner’s wife.” The French have still une modiste and un modiste.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Milk of Human Kindness (The)
Milksop (A)
Milky Way (The)
Mill
Mills of God grind slowly (The)
Millennium
Miller
Miller
Miller’s Eye (A)
Miller’s Thumb (A)
Milliner
Millstone
Millstone used for a Ferry (A)
Millstones
Millstones of Montisci (The)
Millwood (Sarah)
Milo
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Mimer
Mimer’s Well
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