Mil'li-ner, n.

n. [From Milaner, an inhabitant of Milan, in Italy; hence, a man from Milan who imported female finery.] A person, usually a woman, who makes and sells head-dresses, hats or bonnets, &c., for women.

No milliner can so fit his customers with gloves. Shak.

To conceal such real ornaments as these . . . as a milliner’s wife does her wrought stomacher with a smoky lawn, or a black cyprus. B. Jonson.

“This is one of the few occupations which females have latterly gained from the other sex. A milliner was originally a man.” Nares.