artisanate

English

Etymology

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

Noun

artisanate (plural artisanates)

1. The class of artisans or skilled manual workers, collectively.
   • 1969 November 10, John Fowles, chapter 3, in The French Lieutenant’s Woman, 1st US edition, Boston, Mass.; Toronto, Ont.: Little, Brown and Company […], →OCLC, page 10:

     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.

Translations

the class of artisans

French: artisanat (fr) m