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haberdashers'

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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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