craftswomanship en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ˈkɹæftswʊmʌnʃɪp/ (UK)
Etymology
From craftswoman + -ship, on the pattern of craftsmanship.
Meanings
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(uncountable) The body of skills, techniques, and expertise of (a) feminine craft(s).
Its swift intercutting suggests theatrical craftswomanship based on a working knowledge of the effects that could be achieved with shutters and scenery offered by the Theatre Royal.
2006: Alison Findlay, Playing Spaces in Early Women’s Drama, p200 (Cambridge University Press)1991 Duke L.J. 365 (Duke Law Journal); quoted in:
When will I cherish my hair again, the way my grandmother cherished it, when fascinated by its beauty, with hands carrying centuries-old secrets of adornment and craftswomanship, she plaited it, twisted it, cornrowed it, finger-curled it, olive-oiled it, on the growing moon cut and shaped it, and wove it like fine strands of gold inlaid with semiprecious stones, coral and ivory, telling with my hair a lost-found story of the people she carried inside her?
2000: Richard Delgado & Jean Stefancic, Critical Race Theory: The Cutting Edge, page 275 (Temple University Press)…were to cease purchasing machinery, labor-saving devices, hired service, ready-made food and clothes, and go back to the old-fashioned craftswomanship.
1934, Joseph Kirk Folsom, The Family: Its Sociology and Social Psychiatry, J. Wiley & Sons, Inc., page 296: