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English
Noun
skull-thatcher (plural skull-thatchers)
- (UK, slang, obsolete) A maker of straw bonnets.
1828, Cumberland's Minor Theatre, page 5:Having been sent to London on a medical trip by his uncle, Mr. Quince, he had become smitten with a fair milliner — a skull-thatcher, anglice, a maker of straw bonnets, but with no more money in her purse than would buy a dose of salts […]
1859, J. W. Overton, Harry Hartley; or, Social science for the workers, volume 420, page 29:'Which accounts for your frequent attendance, loveliest of skull thatchers!' said Harry in a polite bantering tone, which did not make the intended sarcasm less apparent.
References
- John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary