(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(6) Last year, his mother asked that he be withdrawn from rugby at Haberdashers’ Aske’s Boys’ School in Hertfordshire, but she was told her son couldn’t “pick and choose” his lessons and he left the school.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.
Hatter
Definition:
(v. t.) To tire or worry; -- out.
(n.) One who makes or sells hats.
Example Sentences:
(1) The idea that hatters were "mad" stemmed from popular perceptions more than from medical knowledge.
(2) Donald Trump’s mad hatter ramblings are outside the conservative reform movement and we will continue onward to deny him the nomination.” Kasich did not compete in Indiana as a result of a pact with Cruz and has so far only won his home state of Ohio.
(3) You can watch as "the Mad Hatter gets even madder", and throw pepper at the Duchess.
(4) Its ground floor is decorated only in yellow, its first floor only in red; there’s Cole Porter on the gramophone and the Hatter himself serving in full costume.
(5) To our left sat a stolid middle-aged black couple in the Mad Hatter attire that has become part of the South African football fan's kit.
(6) Conventional wisdom holds that the "Mad Hatter" of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland earned his name because he exhibited psychotic behavior from mercury poisoning.
(7) The reviewer gave me two stars, the same day I got a tweet off the rabbit asking if he could bring the Mad Hatter and the Dormouse to my show.
(8) Discussed are coal miners' nystagmus, scrotal cancer in chimney sweeps, phossy jaw, hatters' shakes, painters' colic, potters' rot, chauffeurs' knee, glanders, caisson disease, and others.
(9) Many of those attending wore costumes depicting the Mad Hatter, Wonder Woman or the scary rabbit character from the cult movie Donnie Darko .
(10) Depp, who only last week agreed to play Charlie Mortdecai in a film based on Kyril Bonfiglioli's books about the eccentric and debonair English art dealer, will once again portray the Mad Hatter in Hollywood's latest riff on the classic Lewis Carroll tale.
(11) I can’t really see the terrific Cabinet Battle #1 (“Madison, you’re mad as a hatter, son, take your medicine.
(12) The hatters' occupational disease was curbed only in 1941 when mercury was required for the manufacture of detonators in World War II.
(13) The Mad Hatter’s Tea Party The choreographer Kate Prince has drawn on fairy tales, Shakespeare and the musical theatre of Stephen Sondheim in her crusade to mine the theatrical and family friendship possibilities of hip-hop.
(14) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Royal Ballet’s Steven McRae, left, and Turbo from ZooNation join forces for The Mad Hatter’s Tea Party.
(15) From Edward Scissorhands' gothic pallor to Jack Sparrow's guyliner-friendly swashbuckling, his rose-tinted Mad Hatter to his dazzle-painted Tonto, Johnny Depp has always been partial to a bit of greasepaint.
(16) The hatters of New Jersey were not only not mad, but neither were they, the physicians, nor the public of the period sufficiently angry to control the conditions under which the hatters worked.
(17) Baron Cohen is also preparing to play the villain, Time, in the forthcoming sequel to Alice in Wonderland, with Johnny Depp reprising his Mad Hatter role alongside Helena Bonham Carter and Mia Wasikowska.
(18) Nearby is the eccentric Mad Hatter’s Tea Rooms (9 Lombard Street), a shrine to vintage.
(19) And then there’s returns for his Mad Hatter and Jack Sparrow, a pair of cast-iron hits.
(20) The pathologic shyness of mercurialism, however, was not noted in New Jersey hatters until 1912.