| 单词 | in the haberdashery way |
| 释义 | > as lemmasin the haberdashery way b. With modifying noun denoting the commodity or type of goods the business deals in. Usually in prepositional phrases with in, as in the steel way, in the haberdashery way, etc. Now rare. ΚΠ 1754 P. Whitehead Hist. Old Lady & her Family 1 Having from her Youth a Head for Business,..she kept a Shop in the Haberdashery Way. 1760 S. Derrick Lett. (1767) I. 45 The different manufactures of this town, more particularly in the cutlery and toy way. 1790 Ann. Reg. 1788 Useful Projects 93/1 I engaged a gentleman of ability in the steel way. 1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby iv. 25 I am in the oil and colour way. 1841 W. M. Thackeray Great Hoggarty Diamond ii It was a new house, but did a tremendous business in the fig and sponge way. 1909 Boot & Shoe Recorder 17 Feb. 81/1 There is a lot doing in the shoe way in the busy capital of Ohio. a1973 A. Macdonald in M. Maclaren Golfer's Bedside Bk. (1976) iv. 48 If he is in the haberdashery way, your prize is fairly certain to be a gay necktie, or a bolt of Manchester. < as lemmas |
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