artisanate

noun

Etymology

From artisan + -ate (forming nouns denoting rank, class). Compare French artisanat.

  1. derived from artītus
  2. derived from *artītiānus
  3. borrowed from artisan
  4. formed as artisanate — “artisan + -ate

Definitions

  1. 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.

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