handicraftsman
Americannoun
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handicraftsmen
plural
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See -man.
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Origin of handicraftsman
First recorded in 1545–55; handicraft + 's 1 + man
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The artist, like the handicraftsman, must learn his art.
From Life of Charles Dickens by Frank T. (Frank Thomas) Marzials
And once the handicraftsman contemplates the shape as it issues from his fingers, his mind will be gripped by that liking or disliking expressed by the words "beautiful" and "ugly."
From The Beautiful An Introduction to Psychological Aesthetics by Vernon Lee
Born in Norfolk, in 1785, he was apprenticed to a joiner, and, becoming a very superior handicraftsman, he rapidly took a prominent position as a maker of agricultural implements.
From Norfolk Annals A Chronological Record of Remarkable Events in the Nineteeth Century, Vol. 2 by Charles Mackie
The true welfare of the nation is indissolubly bound up in the welfare of the farmer and wage-worker; of the man who tills the soil, and of the mechanic, the handicraftsman, and the laborer.
From American Boy's Life of Theodore Roosevelt by Edward Stratemeyer
His self-respect made him wise and careful in regard to his dress, but in other matters many a handicraftsman was accustomed to more luxury than he.
From Casa Braccio, Volumes 1 and 2 by J. André Castaigne
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
First of all went the tabor, then those pashas who provided food for the troops, then whole legions of handicraftsmen, who had to pitch tents, then herds of pack animals, then herds destined for slaughter.
From Pan Michael An Historical Novel of Poland, the Ukraine, and Turkey. by Henryk Sienkiewicz
How many poor handicraftsmen by thee have earned the best part of their living!
From A History of Elizabethan Literature by George Saintsbury
Many of the painters and sculptors of the time had been goldsmiths or workers in metal, and nearly all of them were handicraftsmen, handy with their hands and capable of doing things.
From The Century of Columbus by James J. Walsh
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