NOUN
- an advertising measure; one agate line appearing in one million copies of a publication
How To Use milline In A Sentence
- Prostitution among dressmakers and milliners was notorious, due to the seasonal nature of the work and the lack of wages for up to eight months of the year, as Henry Mayhew reported in his 1851 series on needlewomen in the Morning Chronicle.
- There were no lacemaker or milliners' apprentices at all in the earlier period, but eleven were indentured in the latter. Consuming Passions: Leisure and Pleasure in Victorian Britain
- Her parents had been milliners in Clapham, just down the road, and had run a millinery and drapery shop.
- Clever seamstresses, milliners, and tradesmen quickly reproduced the latest in sleeves, bonnets, and furnishings for their wealthy clients.
- Bellingham practised as an insurance broker and his wife as a milliner.
- At the time of the 1851 census in Britain, there were 268,000 milliners and dressmakers, as against 502,000 people working in cotton textile manufacture (including printing and dyeing).
- Mrs. Anne Turner was a dame somewhat of the occupation of Mrs. Suddlechop in the text; that is, half milliner half procuress, and secret agent in all manner of proceedings. The Fortunes of Nigel
- But, in the times we write of, the hosiers, the glovers, the hatters, the mercers, the milliners, and all who dealt in the miscellaneous wares now termed haberdasher’s goods, were to be found in this narrow alley. The Heart of Mid-Lothian
- Thousands of modest proprietorships and partnerships - grocers, blacksmiths, fabric merchants, printers, tailors, dressmakers, milliners - sold specialized goods.
- I owe the butcher, grocer, furniture dealer, photographer -- and the milliner is the worst of all. The Bacillus of Beauty A Romance of To-day