gentle craft
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of gentle craft
First recorded in 1590–1600
Example Sentences
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The exercise of the gentle craft of shoemaking was for a long time carried on in monastic institutions, and increased the revenues of the clergy.
From The Evolution of Fashion by Gardiner, Florence Mary
Earthworms are a good bait for trout, but the highflyers of the gentle craft consider it infra dig to dig them.
From Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 16, July 16, 1870 by Various
Such is the mode, such the fashion in the gentle craft of authorship.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 383, September 1847 by Various
A holiday most religiously observed by journeymen shoemakers, and other inferior mechanics. a profanation of that day, by working, is punishable by a line, particularly among the gentle craft.
From 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Grose, Francis
Aye more; it seeks to ingratiate itself, sometimes by force and sometimes by gentle craft and stratagem, into the good graces of that civilization which it has so mortally offended.
From The Arena Volume 18, No. 92, July, 1897 by Various
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