Milaner

English

Etymology

From Late Middle English Milener, Miloner (“native of Milan”), from Milan + -er(e) (suffix denoting an inhabitant or resident). The English word is analysable as Milan +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈmɪlɪnə/
• (General American) enPR: mĭ'lə-nər, IPA^(key): /ˈmɪlənəɹ/
• Homophone: milliner
• Hyphenation: Mi‧lan‧er

Noun

Milaner (plural Milaners)

1. (obsolete) Synonym of Milanese (“an inhabitant or native of Milan”)
   • 1604 (date written), Tho[mas] Dekker, [Thomas Middleton], The Honest Whore. […] (4th quarto), London: […] Nicholas Okes for Robert Basse, […], published 1616, →OCLC, Act I, signature [A4], verso:

     Troth ſiſter I heard you vvere married to a very rich chuffe, and I vvas ſorry for it, that I had no better clothes, and that made mee ſend: for you knovv vve Millaners loue to ſtrut vpon Spaniſh leather.

   • 1828 May 15, [Walter Scott], chapter X, in Chronicles of the Canongate. Second Series. […] (The Fair Maid of Perth), volume I, Edinburgh: […] [Ballantyne and Co.] for Cadell and Co.; London: Simpkin and Marshall, →OCLC, page 295:

     "I had something to say to thee, Smith—Canst thou take up a fallen link in my Milan hauberk?" / "As well, please your Highness, as my mother could take up a stitch in the nets she wove—The Milaner shall not know my work from his own."

Derived terms

• milliner