handicraftsman
Americannoun
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handicraftsmen
plural
Gender
See -man.
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Origin of handicraftsman
First recorded in 1545–55; handicraft + 's 1 + man
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It was still, happily, the age of the handicraftsman; the machinery age was yet to come.
From Legends of Loudoun An account of the history and homes of a border county of Virginia's Northern Neck by Harrison Williams
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 Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers
In Rome, for a free citizen to have been a handicraftsman would have been a disgrace; he could be farmer, banker, soldier,—nothing more.
From A Friend of Caesar A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C. by William Stearns Davis
A handicraftsman thinks an apprenticeship necessary to make him acquainted with his business.
From The Frontier in American History by Frederick Jackson Turner
He is handicraftsman in that he guides and directs them by his skill within the scope of activity to which they are designed.
From The Evolution of Modern Capitalism A Study of Machine Production by J. A. (John Atkinson) Hobson
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
Does it not lend additional divinity that Christianity should have arisen among peasants and handicraftsmen?
From Laurus Nobilis Chapters on Art and Life by Vernon Lee
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
The furniture also was of carved oak, delicate in workmanship, and of priceless value; for many handicraftsmen of great skill and experience came over with the Normans, or followed in the wake of the soldiery.
From The Last of the Vikings by John Bowling
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