What's the difference between haberdashery and millinery?

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.

Millinery


Definition:

  • (n.) The articles made or sold by milliners, as headdresses, hats or bonnets, laces, ribbons, and the like.
  • (n.) The business of work of a milliner.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Instead, it was packed lunches, leisurewear and idiosyncratic millinery.
  • (2) Vaguely horsey, absurdly healthy, meticulous, glamorous, glowing – millinery and heels.
  • (3) Two millinery-loving pop warhorses, after 32 years in the paddock, have made a record that feels fuelled by the spirit of 2013 – as the album of the year is meant to be.
  • (4) The impulse towards mediation or continuity is not noticeably a brake on their desire to speak forthrightly and truthfully about the work of other writers; Eliot, for example, did not hesitate to identify "a composite order of feminine fatuity" in the "mind-and-millinery" novels that she described in her essay "Silly Novels by Lady Novelists", published the same year as Aurora Leigh .

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