Meaning of millineric | Babel Free

Definitions

Of or relating to women’s hats.

Examples

“Mrs X⸺ sat in front of me, and there was a wreath on her bonnet so provokingly like the real flowers that I could look at nothing else and think of nothing else but the wonderful skill attained to in their manufacture; my thoughts danced a jig half over the world, started and kept in motion by that millineric creation.”

“The “Frances Cleveland” hat shown at Ridley’s is simply lovely![…]It was purchased by a “brown[-]ish blond” whose complexional requirements were nobly met by the “combine” of garnet and sky-blue, and was pronounced a piece of millineric perfection.”

“At Burns & Shugert’s there is a vast aggregation of rare and beautiful things, from fine underwear to elegant cloaks; from millineric marvels of all sizes, shapes and stuffs, to the daintiest boots.”

“Indeed so general will be the display of millineric colors and combinations that the day should be known as Bonnet Day in the fashionable calendar.”

“Brown shades have a slight millineric prestige.”

“The way to settle the shape question is to adopt the arrangement of hair best suited to the face, then make millineric selections in accordance therewith.”

“Bows of satin-face and gauze ribbon will be a feature in millineric garmiture.”

“A woman who puts on such a little millineric triumph is a woman lost, so far as the price of it is concerned.”

“A MILLINERIC MONSTROSITY. Mr. Presby—“Pauleen!” Miss Presby—“I’s heah.” Mr. Presby—“Dat new hat ob yourn wiv d’ mockin’-bird’s wings on ter it jes’ blowed outen d’ windy.””

“She wears a trig little coat, buttoned up to her pretty chin, with perhaps a touch of scarlet there, and if she hasn’t had to make her old hat over for economic reasons, a most effusive millineric structure is displayed upon the autumn tintings of her lock.”

“Well, there is next Saturday, when we will hope to say much of these if the sunshine and the white butterflies in and out through the young green foliage continue to inspire summerlike aspirations for millineric matters.”

“A gentleman of some taste in matters millineric has remarked that girls dress much more girlishly at festivities out of London than at those in town.”

“There is an aquatic green which is just now the rage, and which is seen in dresses in conjunction with black, white, tan, or brown; the best millineric form of it is in watercress, with which humble product the brims of some exceedingly smart bonnets are trimmed, while the same green is also seen in rosettes of river-grass cleverly simulated.”

“Tulle is quite the correct thing to wear in the evening, alike for maids and matrons. The former wear it in all its fluffy, fairylike, poetic prettiness; the latter use it as trimming. Either way it is charming and a change from chiffon, the perishable fabric that promises to be everlasting, which is a millineric paradox.”

“It is a season, as regards millinery, especially of flowers, colour, and trimming; but everything depends upon how these millineric elements elements are mingled.”

“St. Petersburg will also catch a glimpse of millineric glories;”

“Who shall see fragile creations of millineric genius bent or lopped off or tilted to one side to bring them within the regulations as to height?”

“Naturally, only for such important events is anything divulged so early, but these gowns are of such rich and costly character that it would be millineric tragedy to find them even slightly behind the times when functions of the greatest brilliance demanded their re-entry later on, without the magnificent train worn on State occasions.”

“French Dress was made a fetish to us years ago when the Empress of the French was leader of fashion. Now things are changed, and although it would be unfair and untrue to deny French taste and eye for colour and style a leading place in matters millineric, yet we have discovered that we Englishwomen have characteristics of face and figure that render French fashions unsuitable to us.”

“The reasonable man allows for and enjoys verbal embroidery as much as the lady does the millineric variety of the article.”

“They declare I take some gewgaws worth a dime, or maybe less, / And magically turn them to a millineric mess.”

“Friday there were so thin summer frocks to be seen, those that replaced seemed becoming and suitable, and of very hot and gloriously fine summer, was buried with millineric honours!”

“The auto parade this afternoon will be next in importance only to the millineric pageant moving majestically in Easteric magnificence.”

“Oft I wished I was a drummer, talking to the pretty girls, / Showing them how light blue ribbons match their flood of golden curls; / After all it’s well I am not, for to me somehow it seems / That my poor head would grow weary with those millineric dreams.”

“In every department of this well-known house it will be found that the soundest clothes and millineric investments can be made, with the assurance that everything is of the very best.”

“These are millineric heirlooms, however, and pass from hat to hat, so that economists might absolve their wearers from undue extravagance.”

“In spite (writes “A. E. L.”) of the efforts of many enterprising amateur designers, urged by the plaints of a daily paper that the head-covering of man was sadly out of date, and that our great male minority were awaiting breathlessly something new, neat, light, and becoming, created by millineric genius for their benefit, I can see no change.”

“FLOWERS AND THINGS OVER-RUN EVERYTHING “MILLINERIC””

“Paradise plumes and thick clusters of ospreys, or deep fringes of them, continue to be the aristocracy of millineric ornaments, but are curiously and rakishly disposed.”

“Our French neighbours are not loving us very much just now, I am told, and they are guarding themselves against supplying our sartorial or millineric wants cheaply.”

“In his reply, Ryle swaps Mabbott’s (now bivalent) railway signal for Mrs. Smith’s (multivalent) hat and restates Mabbott’s position in the millineric idiom: . . . “Mrs. Smith’s hat is not green” presupposes, you say, that Mrs. Smith’s hat is some-colour-or-other, i.e., “Mrs. Smith’s hat is not green” is nonsense unless it is true that the hat is either red or blue or green or yellow . . . But that is just the point. It is not true. A particular hat can not have a disjunctive colouring or hover between alternatives. If it is e.g., blue, then it isn’t any other colour, and so there is no “either-or” about it at all. (90–91)”

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