ˈman-ˈmillinery
A contemptuous term for clothing or apparel (e.g. uniforms, ecclesiastical vestments) to which men devote their attention trivially or unworthily (as is supposed).
| 1819 Scott Let. to J. Richardson 22 Aug. in Lockhart, There goes as much to the man-millinery of a young officer of hussars as to that of an heiress on her bridal day. 1846 Ecclesiologist Ser. ii. V. 31 Those who..call the ecclesiological movement ‘manmillinery’. |