单词 | craft-guild |
释义 | > as lemmascraft-guild craft-guild n. chiefly historical a fellowship or association of workers in the same craft or trade, established for the purpose of protecting and promoting their common interests; cf. guild n. 1. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > working > association of employers or employees > [noun] > guild craft1384 mysterya1471 guild-mercatory1656 art1678 trade1793 tradecraft1812 trade guild1829 craft-guild1834 1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus iii. ii, in Fraser's Mag. June 667/1 If Government is, so to speak, the outward skin of the Body Politic, holding the whole together and protecting it; and all your Craft-Guilds, and Associations for Industry, of hand or of head, are the Fleshly Clothes, the muscular and osseous Tissues [etc.]. 1887 Athenæum 31 Dec. 889/3 The very plausible theory that the Scottish craft-guilds were modelled on those of the Hanseatic..towns. 2002 B. Risebero Story Western Archit. (ed. 3) 79 Within each town, craft-guilds were set up to protect trade by controlling the quality of goods and by fixing prices, especially of the food on which survival depended. < as lemmas |
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