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haberdasher

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hab⋅er⋅dash⋅er

  [hab-er-dash-er]
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–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.
Origin:
1275–1325; ME haberdasshere, of obscure orig.; cf. AF habredache haberdashery, hapertas perh. a kind of cloth
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hab·er·dash·er   (hāb'ər-dāsh'ər)   
n.  

  1. A dealer in men's furnishings.

  2. Chiefly British A dealer in sewing notions and small wares.


[Middle English, perhaps from Anglo-Norman hapertas, petty wares.]
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Word Origin & History

haberdasher 
1311, from Anglo-Fr. hapertas "small wares," of unknown origin. At first "a dealer in small articles of trade," sense of "dealer in men's wares" is 1887 in Amer.Eng., via intermediate sense of "seller of hats."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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