Definitions
Etymologies
- From artisan + -al. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Mr. Burmeister started in what he calls "artisanal cinema" late in life, after working as a sculptor, French professor, perfume maker, chef and puppeteer.”
The Wall Street Journal: The 'Ed Wood of the Pampas' Gives New Meaning to Low-Budget Films
“Artisanal' label is desperate bid to appeal to finicky consumer Monday, November 21 2011, 10:25 AM Campbell's is one of several manufacturers using the selling power of the word 'artisanal' in new food launches, like the company's Harvest Orange Tomato Soup.”
“A confirmed chocolate addict, Jennifer takes people on half-day tours of the main artisanal producers in London's Mayfair, Chelsea and Notting Hill.”
“Besides, the market for “craft bread” is so small, he says, that rather than squabble, bakers should do their best to help each other increase sales and steal back sales from the industrial producers that caught on to the idea that “artisanal” bread sells (“I hate the word artisanal”).”
“But as iconic as a character like Fred Dobbs may be, one doesn't come across many of these self-employed, so-called artisanal miners in America today.”
“Most of the manufacturing that currently occurrs in the city is relatively small-scale, what one of the panelists called "artisanal.”
“As for the ice cream list: As far as we can tell, we made it solely because of Christopher Elbow's Glacé, a fancy - uh, "artisanal" - ice cream shop south of the Country Club Plaza.”
“At the same time that the Chinese rare earth industry is facing environmental challenges it must also restructure to improve efficiency and to eliminate so-called artisanal mining entirely.”
“Boutique booze - formally called artisanal spirits - is a big trend in the bar business.”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘artisanal’.
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Bike Snob'isms
words I saw while reading the Bike Snob
helment, scranus, podium, sangue borse, hipster, dandydom, effete, douchebag, douchebags, Lobweh, Portland, brakeless track bike and 318 more...
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Extrude
tchotchke, lugubrious, inspissated, fissiparous, vituperation, quondam, absolutisation, artisanal, funicular, sacerdotal, abstruse, circumspect and 38 more...
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discoveries
These are lexical items new to me that I've discovered in actual use (i.e. not in dictionaries, lists, or this site).
Looking back over this list, I haven't the slightest idea what mos...haymow, hawsepipe, stridor, bariatric, autotelic, apotropaic, cyanotype, tourelle, autobody, zudecca, stifado, corbeille and 1073 more...
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researchgirl's Words
palpable, vade mecum, penumbra, ephemera, esoteric, quirky, quintessential, aphorism, amnesia, insomnia, synesthesia, apostasy and 186 more...
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rememberers
prolix, ageusia, animadversion, anodyne, antic, arabesque, beadle, brachymetropia, colophon, desquamation, diaphoresis, diegesis and 3248 more...
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_mark's list
Words I like!
( personal list, favorite words, randomness )psy, nanobot, success, smack, vibration, microcosmic, springgraph, marksmanship, estranged, homoerotic, flex, fiasco and 1687 more...
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Day Day Up
spurn, underscore, bode, anecdotal, phenomenal, straddle, epic, redux, unspool, rhetoric, censor, savvy and 38 more...
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Balsamic's Words
vignette, itinerant, maladies, hagiographic, dour, ethereal, credence, solemnity, provenance, vestigial, dissonance, melancholia and 221 more...
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My Dictionary
jeremiad, apotheosis, blousy, craven, deflation, disinflation, equivocate, idyll, intransigent, malfeasance, nemesis, nihilism and 24 more...
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April 2013
knavery, moribund, antediluvian, rube, trundle, cloying, errata, elegy, unvarnished, micturate, abutment, joyride and 19 more...
Tweets
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yarb Art is anal. Nov 2, 2012
tock something ( bread ) made by a artistic baker.
artisanal bread is very good looking. taste good too. Sep 7, 2009
qroqqa As defined by the Government of South Africa, “Artisanal mining means small-scale mining involving the extraction of minerals with the simplest of tools, on a subsistence level�?.—
/ɑːˈtɪzənl/ Sep 11, 2008