Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Skill and facility with the hands.
- noun A craft or occupation requiring skilled use of the hands.
- noun An object that is crafted by skilled hands.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Manual labor; hand-work in general.
- noun Specifically Skilled labor with the hands; manual skill or expertness.
- noun A manual employment or calling; a mechanical trade.
- noun A handicraftsman.
- Belonging to a manual trade or mechanical art.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A trade requiring skill of hand; manual occupation; handcraft.
- noun rare A man who earns his living by handicraft; a handicraftsman.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A trade requiring skill of hand; manual occupation; handcraft. - Joseph Addison
- noun rare A man who earns his living by handicraft; a handicraftsman. - John Dryden
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a craft that requires skillful hands
- noun a work produced by hand labor
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The principal handicraft is the production of stoneware crockery.
The Meseta Purepecha 2008
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As she explains, an authentic Mexican handicraft is created by "an artist whose family may have done the same work for generations and who has lovingly formed, molded and put his soul into his work."
Chapala's Feria Maestros del Arte: guardians of the folk art tradition 2008
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The principal handicraft is the production of stoneware crockery.
The Meseta Purepecha 2008
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As she explains, an authentic Mexican handicraft is created by "an artist whose family may have done the same work for generations and who has lovingly formed, molded and put his soul into his work."
Chapala's Feria Maestros del Arte: guardians of the folk art tradition 2008
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There was a movement, begun in the early Shwa years, to invest dignity in Japanese handicraft or folk art, the mingei movement, advocated by Yanagi Setsu (18891961).
Cultural Trends 2001
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Nevertheless let no one think that because sanitary nursing is the subject of these notes, therefore, what may be called the handicraft of nursing is to be undervalued.
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Would you also include, in the National Gallery, what may be called the handicraft of a nation -- works for domestic use or ornament?
On the Old Road, Vol. 2 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature John Ruskin 1859
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In an alcove to the side of one of the exhibits, a young man sat in a room full of a kind of handicraft we have not seen anywhere else.
Archive 2008-05-01 2008
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In an alcove to the side of one of the exhibits, a young man sat in a room full of a kind of handicraft we have not seen anywhere else.
Archive 2006-05-01 2006
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In an alcove to the side of one of the exhibits, a young man sat in a room full of a kind of handicraft we have not seen anywhere else.
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