“Coffee, the favorite drink of the civilized world.” – Thomas Jefferson, third president of the United States
MILLINERY
millinery, woman's hat
(noun) hats for women; the wares sold by a milliner
millinery, hat shop
(noun) shop selling women’s hats
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
millinery (countable and uncountable, plural millineries)
Women's hats.
(countable) A shop selling women's hats.
(uncountable) The business and work that a milliner engages in.
Hyponyms
• hatmaking
Source: Wiktionary
Mil"li*ner*y, n.
1. The articles made or sold by milliners, as headdresses, hats or bonnets, laces, ribbons, and the like.
2. The business of work of a milliner.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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REPLACEMENT
(noun) the act of furnishing an equivalent person or thing in the place of another; “replacing the star will not be easy”
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