painter
1 Americannoun
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an artist who paints pictures.
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a person who coats walls or other surfaces with paint, especially as an occupation.
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Astronomy. Painter, the constellation Pictor.
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a person who paints surfaces as a trade
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an artist who paints pictures
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Etymology
Origin of painter1
First recorded in 1300–50; Middle English peyntour, pentour, paint(o)ur, from Anglo-French peint(o)ur, from unattested Vulgar Latin pinctor, from Latin pictor (noun derivative of pingere paint ( def. ) + -or 2 ( def. ) ); -er 1 ( def. )
Origin of painter2
First recorded in 1300–50; Middle English peyntour, pentre, probably from Middle French pentoir, variant of pendoir “rope, cord for hanging things on,” from Old French pentoir, penteur; pend, -er 2
Origin of painter3
An Americanism dating back to 1755–65; variant of panther
Example Sentences
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These are two Europeans: Miriam, a deeply feeling, moody, beautiful Jewish-British painter with a mysterious past; and Donatello, an Italian Bacchus who closely resembles the ancient Greek sculptor Praxiteles’ “Faun.”
The friendship could not survive Trotsky’s affair with Rivera’s wife, the painter Frida Kahlo, and the men’s growing clashes of politics and ego.
Her parents, both painters, were living in the Estonian capital of Tallinn, also under Soviet rule, but found themselves in a Kyiv hospital close to family when Stasevska arrived.
From Los Angeles Times
They have also weighed what to do with an art collection, which included works by American painter Jackson Pollock.
For the rest of his life—in contrast to his contemporaries the Color Field painters and industrial-scale sculptors, who required vast studios—he worked in the modest apartment where he kept his own company.
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