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artsy (adj.)[artsy 词源字典]: "pretentiously artistic," 1902, from arts (see art (n.)); originally especially artsy-craftsy, with reference to the arts and crafts movement; always more or less dismissive or pejorative; artsy-fartsy was in use by 1971.[artsy etymology, artsy origin, 英语词源]
beaux arts (n.): "the fine arts," 1821, from French; also in reference to Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, and the widely imitated conventional type of art and architecture advocated there.
hartshorn (n.): "ammonium carbonate," Old English heortes hornes, from hart + horn (n.). So called because a main early source of ammonia was the antlers of harts.
heartsick (adj.): also heart-sick, "despondent," late 14c., from heart (n.) + sick (adj.). Old English heortseoc meant "ill from heart disease."
liberal arts: late 14c., translating Latin artes liberales; the seven attainments directed to intellectual enlargement, not immediate practical purpose, and thus deemed worthy of a free man (liberal in this sense is opposed to servile or mechanical). They were divided into the trivium -- grammar, logic, rhetoric (see trivial) -- and the quadrivium -- arithmetic, geometry, music, astronomy.
martial arts (n.): 1909, translating Japanese bujutsu; see martial.
parts (n.): "personal qualities, gifts of ability," 1560s, from part (n.).
heartstring: "Used in reference to one’s deepest feelings of love or compassion", Late Middle English (originally in sense 'cord-like structure attached to the heart'): from heart + string.