arts and crafts

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noun

the handcrafting and decoration of especially utilitarian objects.

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Origin of arts and crafts

First recorded in 1885–90

Words nearby arts and crafts

artmobile, artois, artophorion, artotype, arts, arts and crafts, arts and crafts movement, arts medicine, artsy, artsy-craftsy, artsy-fartsy
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Example sentences from the Web for arts and crafts

  • They are developing the embryo of what was the arts-and-crafts idea into a really fine, useful and satisfying art form.

    Greenwich Village|Anna Alice Chapin

  • Weve sold most of your arts-and-crafts things, announced Winona.

    Winona of the Camp Fire|Margaret Widdemer

British Dictionary definitions for arts and crafts

Arts and Crafts

pl n

decorative handicraft and design, esp that of the Arts and Crafts movement, in late nineteenth-century Britain, which sought to revive medieval craftsmanship
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