/hab"euhr dash'euhr/ , n.
1. a retail dealer in men's furnishings, as shirts, ties, gloves, socks, and hats.
2. Chiefly Brit. a dealer in small wares and notions.
[ 1275-1325; ME haberdasshere, of obscure orig.; cf. AF habredache haberdashery, hapertas perh. a kind of cloth ]