arts and crafts

See synonyms for arts and crafts on Thesaurus.com
noun
  1. the handcrafting and decoration of especially utilitarian objects.

Origin of arts and crafts

1
First recorded in 1885–90

Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2024

How to use arts and crafts in a sentence

  • 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
  • Aside from a few arts-and-crafts potters who of necessity must work on a very limited scale we are training no pottery-makers.

    The Story of Porcelain | Sara Ware Bassett

British Dictionary definitions for Arts and Crafts

Arts and Crafts

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

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012