arts and crafts
noun
the handcrafting and decoration of especially utilitarian objects.
Origin of arts and crafts
1First recorded in 1885–90
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How to use arts and crafts in a sentence
The wiper is made of arts-crafts leather, doubled and filled with pieces of chamois.
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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
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