Examples of haberdashery in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Edward Goodwin, who owned the printing business, haberdashery and ice-cream shop, brought home shows to Greenwood in the 1950s, putting on events at places like the Big 10 Ballroom. — Keiko Morris, WSJ, 29 May 2021 So is the broader question of whether the street can shake off its image as a fusty redoubt of old-school haberdashery. — David Segal, New York Times, 15 Nov. 2020 And, yes, a year is long enough for one's taste in haberdashery to shift, so this isn't a cut/paste/update of last year's order, which is noted parenthetically with all 32 teams. — Nate Davis, USA TODAY, 16 Apr. 2020 The 1903 Kaskel & Kaskel Building, a marble Beaux-Arts pile built at 32nd Street for a high-end haberdashery, was destroyed in 2017, along with a 1905 Beaux-Arts neighbor, despite a preservation petition that garnered 20,000 signatures. — John Freeman Gill, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2020 That is, until their twenty-four-year-old son, Jonathan, loses his job at a New York City haberdashery and is forced to move back home. — Riane Konc, The New Yorker, 20 Dec. 2019 Blake’s family were comfortable, rather than wealthy, as the owners of a hosiery shop and haberdashery. — K.s.c., The Economist, 17 Sep. 2019 The works were shown in the rooms above his family’s haberdashery shop in London. — K.s.c., The Economist, 17 Sep. 2019 Sometime in the past decade, a new breed of attention-seeking attendee emerged, one photographers couldn’t miss, in neon plaid suits and half-a-haberdashery worth of accessories. — Jacob Gallagher, WSJ, 14 Jan. 2019

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History and Etymology for haberdashery

Middle English haberdasshrie, from haberdasshere haberdasher + -rie -ry

Note: The word appears earliest in Anglo-French texts, but it is impossible to say, given the obscure origin of haberdasshere, whether the word should be regarded as English or Anglo-French.

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