Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Milliner

Milliner , noun

[From Milaner an inhabitant of Milan, in Italy; hence, a man from Milan who imported women's finery.]

1.
Formerly, a man who imported and dealt in small articles of a miscellaneous kind, especially such as please the fancy of women. [Obsolete]
No milliner can so fit his customers with gloves. — Shakespeare
2.
A person who designs, makes, trims, or deals in hats, bonnets, headdresses, etc., for women.
Collocations (1)
Man milliner , a man who makes or deals in millinery, that occupation having been at one time predominantly performed by women; hence, contemptuously, a man who is busied with trifling occupations or embellishments.