How to Use haberdashery in a Sentence

haberdashery

noun
  • The two planned to open a haberdashery store after the war.
    Mort Mazor, Sun Sentinel, 22 Dec. 2022
  • Always of note to the Observer is the haberdashery worn by the male guests, which ran the gamut from top hat to cowboy hat.
    al, 16 Feb. 2023
  • The works were shown in the rooms above his family’s haberdashery shop in London.
    K.s.c., The Economist, 17 Sep. 2019
  • Bijan has never aspired to be the world’s hippest haberdashery or even the most stylish.
    Maer Roshan, Town & Country, 22 Oct. 2018
  • So is the broader question of whether the street can shake off its image as a fusty redoubt of old-school haberdashery.
    David Segal, New York Times, 15 Nov. 2020
  • That is, until their twenty-four-year-old son, Jonathan, loses his job at a New York City haberdashery and is forced to move back home.
    Riane Konc, The New Yorker, 20 Dec. 2019
  • At the table sit two young gents who are the final word in flamboyant haberdashery.
    Michael Upchurch, The Seattle Times, 4 July 2017
  • Luhrmann is to filmmaking what Elvis’s cape and white jumpsuit are to haberdashery.
    Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 22 June 2022
  • Thanks to their menswear influences and expert tailoring, many of the moment’s best looks were straight out of the haberdashery.
    Janelle Okwodu, Vogue, 14 Mar. 2022
  • Blake’s family were comfortable, rather than wealthy, as the owners of a hosiery shop and haberdashery.
    K.s.c., The Economist, 17 Sep. 2019
  • That shop would be Junior’s, which founder Glenn Au launched in 2020 as an online-only, one-man haberdashery that saw clients by appointment or on the road.
    Eric Twardzik, Robb Report, 23 Aug. 2022
  • Her father ran a haberdashery in Harlem, and her mother was a homemaker.
    Washington Post, 4 June 2021
  • In the early 1940s, Sam Scherper, the owner of the haberdashery, renamed the business as Sherper's.
    Jeff Rumage, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 14 May 2018
  • And, yes, a year is long enough for one's taste in haberdashery to shift, so this isn't a cut/paste/update of last year's order, which is noted parenthetically with all 32 teams.
    Nate Davis, USA TODAY, 16 Apr. 2020
  • Norman follows him into a fancy Upper East Side haberdashery and insists on buying him a pair of shoes neither one of the men could afford.
    Michael Heaton, cleveland.com, 18 May 2017
  • There was to be a hotel and re-creations of an old-time butcher shop, barbershop, a general store, haberdashery, pool hall, an old service station and a coal mine.
    John Bordsen, CNN, 5 Apr. 2023
  • Sometime in the past decade, a new breed of attention-seeking attendee emerged, one photographers couldn’t miss, in neon plaid suits and half-a-haberdashery worth of accessories.
    Jacob Gallagher, WSJ, 14 Jan. 2019
  • Haitians put down stakes in the 1970s, opening eateries, haberdasheries, tax-assistance services and grocery stores.
    Simon Romero, New York Times, 18 Jan. 2018
  • Elegance was inherent in English style, present in its haberdashery and its wit.
    Joseph Epstein, WSJ, 15 Sep. 2022
  • The store was first established in 1935 as a haberdashery selling formal menswear in downtown Milwaukee.
    Jeff Rumage, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 14 May 2018
  • This old-fashioned haberdashery store is always delightful with its creative window displays– for fashion and craft lovers alike, this is the place to go for ribbon and trimmings in London.
    Tom Marchant, Harper's BAZAAR, 7 Dec. 2017
  • At one time Pasquel owned six Lincolns and had a haberdashery in his massive Mexico City mansion, often inviting players in to pick through his walk-in closets and take home whatever fit.
    Staff Writer follow, Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2022
  • Elizabeth Kurtzman’s colorful costumes — wild matchups of primary and pastel hues, with the odd bits of Op-Art haberdashery to spice them — are just as important.
    Michael Upchurch, The Seattle Times, 17 Feb. 2018
  • Clementine, a reformed, 72-year-old con artist whose signature haberdashery suits her glamorous Paris environs, is one of the best protagonists of the summer.
    Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2021
  • Some Trump defenders have noted that one of the nation’s most important presidents, Harry S. Truman, was a partner in a haberdashery that ran aground.
    Michael Beschloss, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2016
  • Various business ventures occupied the sites over the years, including a haberdashery, printing business and ice-cream shop.
    Keiko Morris, WSJ, 29 May 2021
  • The British holiday haberdashery has just revealed its Christmas Tree Decoration calculator, which will tell you just how many baubles and lights your festive foliage needs.
    Kelsey Mulvey, House Beautiful, 28 Nov. 2022
  • Even after years of design development and progression towards perfection, this industry still pays homage to haberdashery and the roots of fine attire.
    Kendall Cornish, Travel + Leisure, 16 June 2021
  • And yet, many people still don't know what to make of Monk, whose spontaneous bandstand dances, cryptic silences and swank haberdashery fed unrealistic perceptions.
    Steve Dollar, NBC News, 2 June 2017
  • Patterson did not return a call seeking comment on Finchem's haberdashery choices.
    Mary Jo Pitzl, azcentral, 28 Apr. 2017

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