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How to pronounce haberdashery in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms men's furnishings
Type of drygoods, soft goods
Type Words
Synonyms clothing store, haberdashery store, mens store
Type of shop, store
Has types slopseller's shop, slopshop

Examples of haberdashery

haberdashery
Along with the cake ribbons, the store also boasts a small haberdashery section.
From the thisisbristol.co.uk
Whoever says haberdashery and fabric is for your grandmother hasn't been here.
From the nzherald.co.nz
The building, which dates from 1924, once housed a haberdashery and a grocery store.
From the thenewstribune.com
Waifs hawked food, flowers, cigarettes, and all kinds of cheap haberdashery.
From the en.wikipedia.org
The store was a full-service men's haberdashery with a barbershop and bookie upstairs.
From the sacbee.com
In 1784 he was discharged from the army and set up a haberdashery business in Limoges.
From the en.wikipedia.org
When he was a teenager his father, Max, moved to Washington and opened a haberdashery.
From the nytimes.com
If you prefer the art of fine haberdashery, pop in next door at ADS-Hats.
From the latimes.com
It was Evangeline's crafts up until three years ago and it was a haberdashery before then.
From the thisisbristol.co.uk
More examples
  • Clothing store: a store where men's clothes are sold
  • The drygoods sold by a haberdasher
  • Ribbons, buttons, thread, needles and similar sewing goods sold in a haberdasher's shop; a shop selling such goods; a shop selling clothing and accessories for men
  • (hab er dash her ree): store selling gentleman's clothing, such as shirts and neckties. The next time you go to the mall to buy a T-shirt for yourself or a male friend, show some class and tell your mom you're "preparing to visit the neighborhood haberdashery."
  • Sewing notions. It is interesting that the dictionaries give the American meaning as "men's clothing" and a haberdasher as a men's clothing shop. Growing up in 1950s America, I only heard the term applied to men's furnishings. ...