Vocabulary Word
Word: artisan
Definition: a manually skilled worker
Definition: a manually skilled worker
Sentences Containing 'artisan'
He had been an artisan of famed excellence, and with plenty to do; owned a house and garden; embraced a youthful, daughter-like, loving wife, and three blithe, ruddy children; every Sunday went to a cheerful-looking church, planted in a grove.
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