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mi li ner

  • n  someone who makes and sells hats

  • For one night in Paris, you're not a corporate lawyer you're a concert pianist turned milliner.
  • Miss Lupino goes to work for a German milliner (Joseph Cawthorn) and proceeds to demonstrate that, in spite of her smart talk, she is the one he should have picked.
  • Photographer Steichen was born in Milwaukee in 1879, son of a copper miner and a milliner.
Quotes

  • Gilbert Stuart in Washington Post
    Early on, when the Archbishop of Dublin demanded changes to his portrait, Stuart responded that "a dressmaker may alter a dress; a milliner a cap; a tailor a coat, but a painter may give up his art, if he attempts to alter to please."

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