- (British English)
a person who owns or works in a shop selling small articles for sewing, for example, needles, pins, cotton and buttons 缝纫用品店店主(或店员) - haberdasher’s(plural haberdashers)(British English)
a shop that sells these things 缝纫用品店 - (North American English)
a person who owns, manages or works in a shop that makes and sells men’s clothes 男装店店主(或店员等)
Word OriginMiddle English: probably based on Anglo-Norman French hapertas, perhaps the name of a fabric, of unknown origin. In early use the term denoted a dealer in a variety of household goods, later also specifically a hatter. Current senses date from the early 17th cent.