(n.) A dealer in small wares, as tapes, pins, needles, and thread; also, a hatter.
(n.) A dealer in drapery goods of various descriptions, as laces, silks, trimmings, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) Although Ed Milliband himself went to a comprehensive, when he sacked the comprehensive-educated Diane Abbott from the front bench he replaced her with an old girl of Haberdashers' Aske's.
(2) The Haberdasher's Puzzle is an equilateral triangle that is cut into four pieces that can be rearranged into a square.
(3) The CV Born February 14 1945 in London Education Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School, BA Econ at Christ's College, Cambridge, MBA from Harvard University Career 1970-74 Worked for Mark McCormack, founder of talent agency IMG 1975-77 Personal financial adviser to food entrepreneur James Gulliver 1977-1985 Saatchi & Saatchi group, finance director 1985 Takes stake in Wire and Plastic Products, wire baskets maker, to build a marketing services company 1986-present Chief executive of WPP 1999 Knighted Family Married for second time in April.
(4) The "hinging" property of the Haberdasher's Puzzle, which Dudeney had made out of mahogany and bronze, has fascinated and delighted mathematicians for more than a century.
(5) And to those who want to get in the way, I have just two words: hands off," he said in a speech at Haberdashers' Aske's Hatcham College, an academy in south-east London.
(6) Last year, his mother asked that he be withdrawn from rugby at Haberdashers’ Aske’s Boys’ School in Hertfordshire, but she was told her son couldn’t “pick and choose” his lessons and he left the school.
(7) You can transform any polygon to any other polygon of equal area through a Haberdasher's Puzzle-style hinged dissection.
(8) When the Halawis, a family of Syrian haberdashers, wanted to get from Greece to Macedonia on Wednesday, they took a direct coach from Athens to the last hotel before the border.
(9) The son of an electronics retailer who attended the private Haberdashers' Aske's school in north London, and Christ's College, Cambridge, Sorrell is a former finance director of Saatchi & Saatchi and counts the historian Simon Schama among his friends.
(10) I asked about the Haberdasher's Puzzle and the applause he received.
(11) She explains to the room her vision for a haberdasher's that also offers bespoke outfits and sewing lessons.
(12) Lucas was educated at the Haberdashers' Aske's School in Elstree, which charges parents around £10,000 a year; David Walliams went to Reigate Grammar, which rates itself as "one of the top independent co-educational day schools in the country".
(13) I had the choice of outstanding schools, such as Merchant Taylors' and Haberdashers' near my home in London.
Haberdashery
Definition:
(n.) The goods and wares sold by a haberdasher; also (Fig.), trifles.
Example Sentences:
(1) Tarantino opens with a lengthy sequence in a stagecoach as it tries to beat an incoming blizzard to the nearest shelter, Minnie's Haberdashery.
(2) "They run into a southerner named Chris Mannix on the road, and three of them, along with their driver – a living prisoner and three dead bounties strapped to the roof – arrive at a haberdashery to take shelter from an oncoming blizzard.
(3) On arriving at Minnie's Haberdashery, we encounter an elderly Confederate general (Dern), and three suspicious-looking characters, a near-silent Madsen, an Englishman (Roth) who claims he's the new Red Rock executioner to whom Tamblyn will be delivered, and a Frenchman who claims to be running the place for the absent Millie and her husband.
(4) The Hateful Eight reportedly opens on a sweeping Wyoming vista but soon moves indoors to a stagecoach and a haberdashery.