artisanate en · NOUN
Etymology
From artisan + -ate (forming nouns denoting rank, class). Compare French artisanat.
Meanings
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The class of artisans or skilled manual workers, collectively.
The ‘sixties had been indisputably prosperous; an affluence had come to the artisanate and even to the laboring classes that made the possibility of revolution recede, at least in Great Britain, almost out of mind.
1969 November 10, John Fowles, chapter 3, in The French Lieutenant’s Woman, 1st US edition, Boston, Mass.; Toronto, Ont.: Little, Brown and Company […], →OCLC, page 10:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| artisanates | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Translations (1)
fr artisanat (the class of artisans)