| Domain | Definition | ||
| Literature | 1: "One comes in foreign trashery 2: Horse milliner of modern days." 3: Of tinkling chain and spur, 4: Horse-milliner Properly, one who makes up and supplies decorations for horses. 5: A horse-soldier more fit for the toilet than the battle-field. The expression was first used by Rowley in his Ballads of Charitie, but Sir Walter Scott revived it. 6: A walking haberdashery 7: Of feathers, lace, and fur; 8: In Rowley's antiquated phrase. 9: Bridal of Triermain, ii. 3. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | ||
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