Skull-thatcher

noun, slang

noun, slang ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

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Noun
  1. 1
    A maker of straw bonnets. UK, obsolete, slang

    "Having been sent to London on a medical trip by his uncle, Mr. Quince, he had become smitten with a fair milliner — a skull-thatcher, anglice, a maker of straw bonnets, but with no more money in her purse than would buy a dose of salts […]"

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"Having been sent to London on a medical trip by his uncle, Mr. Quince, he had become smitten with a fair milliner — a skull-thatcher, anglice, a maker of straw bonnets, but with no more money in her purse than would buy a dose of salts […]"

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