MillinerA corruption of Milaner; so called from Milan, in Italy, which at one time gave the law to Europe in all matters of taste, dress, and elegance. Milliner was originally applied to the male sex; hence Ben Jonson, in Every Man in his Humour, i. 3, speaks of a “milliner's wife.” The French have still une modiste and un modiste. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894 More on Milliner from Infoplease:
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