arts and crafts
noun
the handcrafting and decoration of especially utilitarian objects.
Nearby words
artmobile, artois, artophorion, artotype, arts, arts and crafts, arts and crafts movement, arts medicine, artsy, artsy-craftsy, artsy-fartsy
Origin of arts and crafts
First recorded in 1885–90
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Examples 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 ChapinWeve 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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