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
Pa. Oh, come, sir, you will never wrong one of the same gentle craft as yourself.
From Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 01 by Fowler, F. G. (Francis George)
So, good luck to the gentle craft, and its professors, may the Fates send us much into their company!
From Tom Brown at Oxford by Hughes, Thomas
I say “progresses,” but it is impossible to speak with any certainty of courting, for the essence of that gentle craft is hope, rooted in labor and trained by love.
From A Cathedral Courtship by Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith
The birds are trained much as they were in England in former days, when the gentle craft, as it was called, was fashionable among the nobles and gentry of the land.
From In the Eastern Seas by Kingston, William Henry Giles
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