Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An artisan whose trade it is to paint and decorate houses.
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Examples
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Patrick Albanesius Gilligan is a part-time house-painter and a property manager.
TV Dinner Theater: Parodies of Old Sitcoms Draw Blood, Crowds Lucette Lagnado 2011
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Patrick Albanesius Gilligan is a part-time house-painter and a property manager.
TV Dinner Theater: Parodies of Old Sitcoms Draw Blood, Crowds Lucette Lagnado 2011
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A house-painter in his thirties, he's back in college to get a degree in accounting.
Hot Monkey Love 2009
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I was a house-painter, and the crew would leave BCN on the radio all day long.
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Edward Oxford, the house-painter who had shot at Queen Victoria, was convicted of high treason on 18 July 1840.
Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008
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His aspirations to become an artist met with little sympathy from his family, and he was apprenticed first to a grocer and then to a house-painter.
Archive 2008-04-01 Hermes 2008
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Edward Oxford, the house-painter who had shot at Queen Victoria, was convicted of high treason on 18 July 1840.
Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008
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Edward Oxford, the house-painter who had shot at Queen Victoria, was convicted of high treason on 18 July 1840.
Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008
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The son of a bankrupt bookseller, he had gone to work as a house-painter at eighteen, and then served three years in France and India during the war.
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A more somber note is struck when Robert Pastorelli, who achieved wide recognition as Eldin Bernecky, Candice Bergen's seemingly steady house-painter confidante in the hit CBS (and Dan Quayle – enraging) feminist series Murphy Brown, appears as Joe Loop, the ill-fated hit man in Be Cool.
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