Haberdasher meaning

hăb'ər-dăsh'ər
A dealer in men's furnishings.
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A dealer in sewing notions and small wares.
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A person whose work or business is selling men's accessories, such as hats, shirts, neckties, and gloves.
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A dealer in various small articles, such as ribbons, thread, and needles.
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A dealer in ribbons, buttons, thread, needles and similar sewing goods.
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(US) A men's outfitter, usually a men's haberdasher.
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(UK) A member of the Haberdashers livery company.
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Origin of haberdasher

Middle English perhaps from Anglo-Norman hapertas petty wares

Sentence Examples

  • Coverdale and Grafton left Paris quickly, but soon returned, rescued a great number of the finished sheets, "four great dryvats " full of them having been sold to a haberdasher instead of being burnt - and conveyed types, printing-presses and workmen to England.

  • What makes this fact still more certain is the circumstance that a haberdasher in Cheapside living "'twixt Wood Street and Milk Street," two streets on the north side opposite Bread and Friday Streets, described himself as " over against the Mermaid tavern in Cheapside."

  • haberdasher's shop which also sold children's clothes.

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