Definition of Handicrafts

1. Noun. (plural of handicraft) ¹

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Definition of Handicrafts

1. handicraft [n] - See also: handicraft

Lexicographical Neighbors of Handicrafts

handicapped
handicapped-accessible
handicapped permit
handicapped person
handicapped sign
handicapped space
handicapper
handicappers
handicapping
handicaps
handicraft
handicrafter
handicrafters
handicraftman
handicraftmen
handicrafts (current term)
handicraftsman
handicraftsmen
handier
handiest
handily
handiness
handinesses
handing
handing down
handing in
handing off
handing out
handing over
handiron

Literary usage of Handicrafts

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Annual Report (1906)
"The committee appointed to look into the subject of handicrafts in the schools has gathered, with as much completeness as possible, statistics concerning ..."

2. Vocational Education in Europe: Report to the Commercial Club of Chicago by Edwin Gilbert Cooley (1912)
"Elberfeld handicrafts and Art-Trades School. Erfurt handicrafts and Art-Trades School. ... Berlin First handicrafts School. Bielefeld handicrafts School. ..."

3. Outlines of the History of Art by Wilhelm Lübke (1904)
"ARTISTIC handicrafts AMONG THE ANCIENTS. IN order to gain a more complete idea of the artistic endowments of the peoples of classic antiquity, we will, ..."

4. Capital: A Critique of Political Economy by Karl Marx (1906)
"REVOLUTION EFFECTED IN MANUFACTURE, handicrafts. AND DOMESTIC INDUSTRY BY MODERN INDUSTRY. a. Overthrow of Co-operation based on Handicraft and on the ..."

5. The International Congress of Women of 1899 by International Council of Women (1900)
"SPECIAL APTITUDE OF WOMEN FOE handicrafts. COUNCIL CHAMBER, WESTMINSTER TOWN ... These handicrafts, the women's branches of which come especially within the ..."

6. The Mind and Its Education by George Herbert Betts (1916)
"One-half of our people live in cities and towns, and even in the village and on the farm the handicrafts of the home have been relegated to the factory, ..."

7. Industrial Evolution by Karl Bücher (1901)
"CHAPTER V. THE DECLINE OF THE handicrafts. THERE are in Germany two handicraft problems. One is a problem belonging to the newspapers and the legislatures, ..."

8. The Panjab, North-West Frontier Province and Kashmir by James McCrone Douie (1916)
"CHAPTER XV handicrafts AND MANUFACTURES handicrafts.—The chief handicrafts of the province are those of the weaver, the shoemaker, the carpenter, ..."

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