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millinery

(n): shop selling women's hats
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about 1 year ago chained_bear said:

In the eighteenth century, the business of making and selling cloaks, hats, and linen articles such as aprons and caps, and of selling accessories, such as gloves, muffs, fans, and ribbons.

Milliners were commonly women, and millinery one of the few trades open to women.

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