arts and crafts

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noun

the handcrafting and decoration of especially utilitarian objects.

Origin of arts and crafts

First recorded in 1885–90

Words nearby arts and crafts

artmobile, artois, artophorion, artotype, arts, arts and crafts, arts and crafts movement, arts medicine, artsy, artsy-craftsy, artsy-fartsy

Example sentences from the Web for arts and crafts

  • They are developing the embryo of what was the arts-and-crafts idea into a really fine, useful and satisfying art form.

    Greenwich Village |Anna Alice Chapin

  • Weve sold most of your arts-and-crafts things, announced Winona.

    Winona of the Camp Fire |Margaret Widdemer

British Dictionary definitions for arts and crafts

Arts and Crafts

pl n

decorative handicraft and design, esp that of the Arts and Crafts movement, in late nineteenth-century Britain, which sought to revive medieval craftsmanship