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Haberdasher vs Haberdashed - What's the difference?

haberdasher | haberdashed |

As a noun haberdasher

is a dealer in ribbons, buttons, thread, needles and similar sewing goods.

As an adjective haberdashed is

decorated with ribbons, trinkets, etc.

haberdasher

English

(wikipedia haberdasher)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A dealer in ribbons, buttons, thread, needles and similar sewing goods.
  • (US) A men's outfitter, usually a men's haberdasher.
  • (British) A member of the Haberdashers livery company.

    • Derived terms

    * haberdashery

    See also

    * hatmaker * milliner

    haberdashed

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Decorated with ribbons, trinkets, etc.
  • * 1981 , Vicki Goldberg, Photography in print: writings from 1816 to the present (page 135)
    • When he showed that petulant old warhorse of an artist, Horace Vernet, haberdashed with medals, Nadar had no trouble revealing a seeker of official honors.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2008, date=April 20, author=Paul Devlin, title=Black Star, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=Toward the end of the masterly “Negro With a Hat” (as the Napoleonically haberdashed Garvey was derided by W. E. B. Du Bois), Garvey is quoted as having said: “We were the first Fascists. }}