handicraftsman
noun
a person skilled in a handicraft; craftsman.
handicraftsmen
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pluralof handicraftsman.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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
No class of persons was more zealous for the new Constitution, than the handicraftsmen, artisans, and manufacturers.
From The Works of Daniel Webster, Volume 1 by Daniel Webster
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
As the two extremes of exquisite delicacy, of dainty elegance, and, on the other hand, of thick-witted grossness and clumsiness, stand the fairy tribe and the group of Athenian handicraftsmen.
From Folk-lore of Shakespeare by Thomas Firminger Thiselton-Dyer
