haberdasher

[ hab-er-dash-er ]

noun

1. a retail dealer in men's furnishings, as shirts, ties, gloves, socks, and hats.
2. Chiefly British. a dealer in small wares and notions.

haberdasher

/ ˈhæbəˌdæʃə /

noun

1. a dealer in small articles for sewing, such as buttons, zips, and ribbons
2. a men's outfitter

Word History and Origins

Origin of haberdasher¹

1275–1325; Middle English haberdasshere, of obscure origin; compare Anglo-French habredache haberdashery, hapertas perhaps a kind of cloth

Word History and Origins

Origin of haberdasher¹

C14: from Anglo-French hapertas small items of merchandise, of obscure origin

Example Sentences

He looked, that dreadful afternoon, as if he had just come from his barber, tailor and haberdasher.

From The Daily Beast

In the buildup to the 1946 midterms, the failed haberdasher with a funny accent from western Missouri was extremely unpopular.

From The Daily Beast

In his teens he was despatched to London to serve his apprenticeship to a haberdasher in Lawrence Lane.

From Project Gutenberg

The two young men enter at the bar, take modest lodgings in the house of a haberdasher, and become the heroes of the story.

From Project Gutenberg

There's a haberdasher's wife of small wit near him, that railed upon me till her Pink'd porringer fell off her head.

From Project Gutenberg

In the other corner, by the writing-desk, stood the hatter and the haberdasher with their heads together.

From Project Gutenberg

The haberdasher looked Mr. Magee fully in the eye, and the latter was startled by the hostility he saw in the other's face.

From Project Gutenberg