noun.
Formerly, a man who imported and dealt in small articles of a miscellaneous kind, especially such as please the fancy of women.
noun.
A person who designs, makes, trims, or deals in hats, bonnets, headdresses, etc., for women.
noun.
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.