handicraftsman
Americannoun
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handicraftsmen
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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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It would have been better, after all, if he had been apprenticed to a handicraftsman," said the porter's wife, weeping; "for then we could have kept him with us.
From Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen
Nor mine," said the Knave; "but no doubt you are a handicraftsman.
From Old-Fashioned Fairy Tales by Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing
For such a piece of work as moving this statue could only have been undertaken by some handicraftsman.'
From The Letters of Cassiodorus Being A Condensed Translation Of The Variae Epistolae Of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator by Thomas Hodgkin
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 E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus) Hoffmann
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
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
The emigrants are required to be chosen from the class of mechanics and handicraftsmen, agricultural labourers, or domestic servants, and must be going out with the intention to work for wages.
From The Cape and the Kaffirs A Diary of Five Years' Residence in Kaffirland by Harriet Ward
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
In Oaxaca the Toltecatl=builders and handicraftsmen, erected the walled temple and cruciform structures at Mitla, and decorated them with geometrical designs.
From The Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilizations by Zelia Nuttall
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