Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A painter of signs for tradesmen, etc.

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Examples

  • And Pompeii sign-painter Aemilius Celer may have been little-known in ancient life but – in death at least – left his mark.

    In praise of … a well-placed signature | Editorial 2011

  • He's a hobo and a sign-painter, but he always seems to be around some small town when a murder takes place.

    Forgotten Books: MURDER -- Harold Adams Bill Crider 2009

  • She also fell in love with Morris Myerson, a quiet, bespectacled sign-painter who loved poetry and music and exposed her to lectures on literature and history but who never fully shared her Zionist passion.

    Golda Meir. 2009

  • He's a hobo and a sign-painter, but he always seems to be around some small town when a murder takes place.

    Archive 2009-10-11 Bill Crider 2009

  • Dick Tinto mended his pace to get out of hearing, so little had either early practice or recent philosophy reconciled him to the character of a sign-painter.

    The Bride of Lammermoor 2008

  • It is a good idea to find a good, local sign-painter to help you.

    1. Product: What products or services to provide 1999

  • Roger had found a sign-painter who'd agreed to forfeit his afternoon's television viewing in favour of 'Stewards Only', 'Club Enclosure', 'Private Dining Room', 'Women Jockeys' Changing Room 'and' Members 'Bar'.

    Decider Francis, Dick 1993

  • Every hand was red, and directly below the red wrist joint, where on an actual hand a watch or bracelet might cling, the sign-painter would have rendered the title "Madame" followed by a name: Madame Yvonne, Madame Christina, Madame Divine and others.

    Even Cowgirls Get The Blues Robbins, Tom 1976

  • The difficulty then lies in bringing _blue_, the third original colour, into flesh, on account of the vast variety introduced thereby; and this omitted, all the difficulty ceases; and a common sign-painter that lays his colours smooth, instantly becomes, in point of colouring, a Rubens, a Titian, or a Correggio.

    The Mind of the Artist Thoughts and Sayings of Painters and Sculptors on Their Art Cicely Margaret Powell [Editor] Binyon

  • But one sunny morning a sign-painter began work on the Corinthian columns.

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, June 3, 1914 Various

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