Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Art produced or intended primarily for utility, including jewelry, furniture, and other crafts.
- n. Any of the art forms, such as pottery, weaving, or jewelry making, used to create such art. Often used in the plural.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. fine art which has for its end ornamentation, rather than the representation of objects or events.
Examples
“It can not be doubted from the results of the past few years that there is an interesting future in pottery for decorative art in Cincinnati.”
Art and Handicraft in the Woman's Building of the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893
“The success of "Rookwood Pottery," both in an artistic and a commercial sense, may be regarded as the most perfect realization of decorative art in clay in the United States; the result of a woman's taste, skill, and perseverance, from the initial step until it reached a period of commercial success.”
Art and Handicraft in the Woman's Building of the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893
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HU Realia
Cultural realia from Hungary.
I have only included realia that already have an English spelling variant and DID NOT include Hungarian words that would be used in English texts unchang...charcoal kiln, embroidered felt ..., farmstead, golden stick, graft, herdsman’s whip, inn, lever well, limekiln, local border traffic, maypole, merino and 356 more...
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