HABERDASHER  , a name for a tradesman who sells by See also:

• RETAIL

retail small articles used in the making or wearing of See also:

• DRESS (from the Fr. dresser, to set out, arrange, formed from Lat. directus, arranged, dirigere, to direct, arrange)

dress, such as sewing cottons or silks, tapes, buttons, pins and needles and the like . The See also:

• SALE
• SALE, GEORGE (c. 1697-1736)
• SALE, SIR ROBERT HENRY (1782—1845)

sale of such articles is not generally carried on alone. and a " haberdashery See also:

• COUNTER

counter " usually forms a See also:

• DEPARTMENT (Fr. departement, from departir, to separate into parts)

department of drapers' shops . The word, found in See also:

• CHAUCER, GEOFFREY (? 1340-1400)

Chaucer, and even earlier (1311), is of obscure origin; the See also:

• SUGGESTION

suggestion that it is connected with an Icelandic haprtask, " See also:

• HAVERSACK, or HAVRESACK (through the French from Ger. Haber-sack, an oat-sack, a nose-bag, Hafer or Haver, oats)

haversack," is, according to the New See also:

• ENGLISH

English See also:

• DICTIONARY

Dictionary, impossible . Hapertas occurs in an See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early Anglo-See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French customs See also:

• LIST (O.E. lisle, a Teutonic word, cf. Dut. lust, Ger. Leiste, adapted in Ital. lista and Fr. lisle)
• LIST, FRIEDRICH (1789-1846)

list, which includes articles such as were sold by haberdashers, but this word may itself have been a misspelling of " haberdash." The obscurity of origin has See also:

• LEFT

left See also:

• ROOM

room for many conjectures such as that of Minsheu that " haberdasher " was perhaps merely a corruption of the See also:

• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

German Habt ihr das ? " Have you that?" or Habe das, Herr, " Have that, See also:

• SIR

sir," used descriptively for a See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

general dealer in See also:

• MISCELLANEOUS

miscellaneous wares . The Haberdashers' See also:

• COMPANY

Company is one of the greater See also:

• LIVERY

Livery Companies of the See also:

• CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

City of See also:

• LONDON

London . Originally a See also:

• BRANCH (from the Fr. branche, late Lat. branca, an animal's paw)

branch of the mercers, the fraternity took over the selling of " small wares," which included not only articles similar to those sold as " haberdashery " now, but such things as gloves, daggers, See also:

• GLASS
• GLASS (O.E. glees, cf. Ger. Glas, perhaps derived from an old Teutonic root gla-, a variant of glo-, having the general sense of shining, cf. " glare," " glow ")
• GLASS, STAINED

glass, pens, lanterns, mousetraps and the like . They were thus on this See also:

• SIDE
• SIDE (mod. Eski Adalia)

side connected with the Milliners . On the other See also:

• HAND
• HAND (a word common to Teutonic languages; cf. Ger. Hand, Goth. handus)
• HAND, FERDINAND GOTTHELF (1786-185r)

hand there was early a See also:

• FUSION

fusion with the old gild of the " Hurers," or cap makers, and the hatters, and by the reign of See also:

• HENRY
• HENRY (1129-1195)
• HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
• HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
• HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
• HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
• HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
• HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
• HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
• HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
• HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
• HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
• HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
• HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)

Henry VII. the amalgamation was See also:

• COMPLETE

complete . There were See also:

• LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
• LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

long recognized two branches of the haberdashers, the haberdashers of " small wares," and the haberdashers of hats (see further LIVERY COMPANIES) . The haberdashers are named, side by side with the .capellarii, in the See also:

• WHITE
• WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
• WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
• WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
• WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
• WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
• WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
• WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
• WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
• WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
• WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
• WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
• WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
• WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)

White See also:

• BOOK

Book (See also:

• LIBER

Liber Albus) of the city of London (see Munimenta Gildhallae Londiniensis, ed . H .

T . See also:

• RILEY, JAMES WHITCOMB (1853– )

Riley, Rolls See also:

• SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

Series, 12, 1859-1862), and a haberdasher forms one of the company of pilgrims in the See also:

• CANTERBURY
• CANTERBURY, CHARLES

Canterbury Tales (See also:

• PROLOGUE (from Gr. 7rpo, before, and Myer, a word)

Prologue, 361) .