millinery

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On the main floor, check out tiny replica pioneer cabins and a building-wide two-story replica vintage Main Street with a bank, train station, millinery, general store, doctor, library, dentist and more.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 12, 2023

A 2003 book of photographs, “Paris + Klein,” portrayed the city of fashion and fine dining as a freak show of boulevard cafes where ladies in millinery ate with plastic forks on paper plates.

From New York Times • Sep. 12, 2022

Here is a selection of some of this year's head-turning millinery.

From BBC • Jun. 16, 2022

The Kentucky Derby is as much about $1,000 mint juleps and flamboyant millinery as a hoof-pounding competition that lasts barely two minutes.

From Washington Post • Sep. 2, 2020

Staring out to sea, tobacco farmers imagined themselves as race car drivers, silk dyers as Wall Street tycoons, millinery girls as fan dancers in the Ziegftid Follies.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides