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  • noun Plural form of handicraftsman.

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Examples

  • But in the old days the handicraftsmen were the marrow of the land.

    Pelle the Conqueror — Volume 02 Martin Andersen Nex�� 1911

  • But in the old days the handicraftsmen were the marrow of the land.

    Pelle the Conqueror — Complete Martin Andersen Nex�� 1911

  • Before that, even if the rhythms of agricultural and village life included seasonal oscillations between periods of intense labor and downtime, farmers and handicraftsmen generally retained the ability to sustain their families.

    Steve Fraser: Uncle Sam Doesn't Want You Steve Fraser 2011

  • The farmers, handicraftsmen, fishermen, and various tradespeople swept into the new textile or shoe factories, or the farm women set to work out in the countryside spinning and weaving for merchant capitalists still held onto some semblance of their old ways of life.

    Steve Fraser: Uncle Sam Doesn't Want You Steve Fraser 2011

  • The farmers, handicraftsmen, fishermen, and various tradespeople swept into the new textile or shoe factories, or the farm women set to work out in the countryside spinning and weaving for merchant capitalists still held onto some semblance of their old ways of life.

    Steve Fraser: Uncle Sam Doesn't Want You Steve Fraser 2011

  • Before that, even if the rhythms of agricultural and village life included seasonal oscillations between periods of intense labor and downtime, farmers and handicraftsmen generally retained the ability to sustain their families.

    Steve Fraser: Uncle Sam Doesn't Want You Steve Fraser 2011

  • As he walks through the streets of Christminster, looking for “work, manual work,” he gazes at the Gothic buildings of the great university:The numberless architectural pages around him he read, naturally, less as an artist-critic of their forms than as an artisan and comrade of the dead handicraftsmen whose muscles had actually executed those forms.

    My favorite labor novel 2009

  • It so chanced that in the early day I was at the marriage feast of one of my companions, who had gotten together in his house some twenty of the handicraftsmen of this city, amongst them tailors and silk spinners and carpenters and others of the same kidney.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Shaddad presently assembled from all lands and countries architects and engineers and men of art and labourers and handicraftsmen, who dispersed over the world and explored all the wastes and words and tracts and holds.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Or reading cheirotechnas with Bekker and the MSS.; "themselves were untrained handicraftsmen."

    The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2007

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