noun, masculine/me.tje/plural: métiers
job, profession, trade; skill, craft; machine, device, loom
“C'est aussi que, se préoccupant des métiers qui devaient mettre en œuvre leurs conceptions décoratives, ils composaient leurs motifs en vue d'une exécution facile et rationnelle.” — It is also the case that, being mindful of the crafts responsible for realizing their decorative designs, they composed their motifs with a view to easy and rational execution.
Inherited from Old French mestier, inherited from Vulgar Latin *misterium, a syncopated form of ministerium (whence French ministère). Compare Portuguese mister, also mester, Italian mestiere, Spanish and Catalan menester.