Artisanate

noun

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Noun
  1. 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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"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."

Etymology

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

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