What is "noble art"

Usage examples of "noble art".

The sculptors, who since the destruction of the Roman Empire have been out of employment, haltingly return to their noble art.

I bought an approved scheme of the noble art and mystery of stenography (which cost me ten and sixpence).

The noble art, which had once been preserved as the sacred inheritance of the patricians, was fallen into the hands of freedmen and plebeians, ^122 who, with cunning rather than with skill, exercised a sordid and pernicious trade.

It extends more to the young women who perform it than the noble art itself.