handicraftsman
Americannoun
Gender
See -man.
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Origin of handicraftsman
First recorded in 1545–55; handicraft + 's 1 + man
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He spoke of himself visiting the South Kensington Museum on Saturday nights, "to see the handicraftsman, the wood-worker, the glass-blower, and the worker in metals."
From Oscar Wilde A Critical Study by Ransome, Arthur
As a student of art, he mourned over the reduction of the handicraftsman to a slave of the machine.
From A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century by Beers, Henry A. (Henry Augustin)
The movement inaugurated by Luther gave to the peasant groaning under the weight of baronial oppression, and the small handicraftsman suffering under his Ehrbarkeit, a rallying-point and a rallying cry.
From German Culture Past and Present by Bax, Ernest Belfort
But to men who work with their hands there must always be something specially inspiring in the life and example of one who was a handicraftsman and so much beside.
From Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies by Blore, George Henry
In respect of her education and her character she had not risen a hair's breadth above the sphere of the handicraftsman.
From Weird Tales, Vol. II. by Hoffmann, E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus)
The specter of proletarian dependency haunted the lives of the country’s self-reliant handicraftsmen who watched apprehensively as shops employing wage labor began popping up across the country.
From Salon ● May 25, 2012
The Industrial Revolution, which replaced the tools of the independent workmen with machines owned by lenders of capital, had transformed handicraftsmen who were their own bosses into hired hands subject to the orders of managers.
From Time Magazine Archive
Nor were the neighbours likely to be much surprised at the noise, as many handicraftsmen inhabited that locality.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 by Various
It hath some considerable Merchants in it and many usefull handicraftsmen and many good farmers belonging to it.
From A briefe discription of New England and the severall townes therein together with the present government thereof by Maverick, Samuel
They seem constituted to make the lender’s interest supreme, but they have, nevertheless, conferred enormous benefits on the handicraftsmen, small traders, small cultivators and others who borrow from them.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 3 "Convention" to "Copyright" by Various
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