Examples of haberdashery in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Luhrmann is to filmmaking what Elvis’s cape and white jumpsuit are to haberdashery. — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 22 June 2022 Heavily influenced by the world of fashion, Joy Moyler infuses her interiors with bespoke elements such as those found in haute couture haberdashery. — The Editors Of Elle Decor, ELLE Decor, 1 June 2022 At the novel’s center is the friendship between Susan Warren, the narrator, and Norma-Jean Pavlou, who meet when Susan is hired as an assistant in the Pavlou family haberdashery. — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 20 May 2022 In search of a new hat, Tweedy wandered the leather-fragrant aisles at Alcala’s Western Wear, a vaquero haberdashery in Chicago, which has been his home since the nineties. — Hannah Seidlitz, The New Yorker, 9 May 2022 Mark Rylance stars as Leonard Burling, a Savile Row expat now operating a haberdashery in 1956 Chicago that caters primarily to the Irish mob. — Amy Nicholson, WSJ, 17 Mar. 2022 Thanks to their menswear influences and expert tailoring, many of the moment’s best looks were straight out of the haberdashery. — Janelle Okwodu, Vogue, 14 Mar. 2022 So when Claudette gets a job in the haberdashery department at Macys in 1947 or Charley attends a Beatles concert in 1965, the specifics seem paradoxically generic. — New York Times, 3 Nov. 2021 Even after years of design development and progression towards perfection, this industry still pays homage to haberdashery and the roots of fine attire. — Kendall Cornish, Travel + Leisure, 16 June 2021 See More

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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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