Skull-thatcher
noun, slang
noun, slang ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 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 […]"
Example
More examples"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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