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  • noun Plural form of housepainter.

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Examples

  • • Out on the streets, the postman and cable guys and housepainters and lawn-maintenance people and the other day workers made their noisy, oblivious rounds.

    Archive 2009-08-01 2009

  • • Out on the streets, the postman and cable guys and housepainters and lawn-maintenance people and the other day workers made their noisy, oblivious rounds.

    Amateur Barbarians 2009

  • Cut Your Own Lawn - My neighborhood is always full of lawn guys (one is blasting his leaf blower away outside now), babysitters, housecleaners, housepainters, carpenters, and landscapers keeping everything perfect at all times, at houses where nobody's ever home.

    Pamela Redmond Satran: Creative Career Advice for the Newly-Broke 2008

  • Professional housepainters, maybe, but if you're working that high up and not using a scaffold you're crazier than I was when I used to paint houses back in college.

    Spring mending time 2005

  • The first couple of volunteers would be plants, dressed like housepainters or construction workers.

    “Classy” Freddie Blassie Freddie Blassie 2003

  • Fiesole, and the slow walk through its cool cloisters; in place of the dead files of uniform ugly houses, Venetian palaces, with the water at their base, reflecting the colors which Giorgione and Titian, housepainters at

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 01, November, 1857 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics Various

  • One of the men of the party, a little old man who followed the housepainters trade, was unmarried and lived with his mother.

    Triumph of the Egg, and Other Stories Sherwood Anderson 1908

  • Several years of evaluation, planning and construction later, it now rests in its permanent home inside the Rosenbach's first-floor gallery, where conservation work is under way to stabilize flaking paint and remove layers from housepainters who accidentally covered parts of the characters as they painted around them.

    StarTribune.com rss feed 2011

  • It takes decades of data from the US Geological Survey on temperature and precipitation across the US, and insures weather-dependent businesses farmers, housepainters, golf ranges - anyone involved in the outdoors.

    unknown title 2011

  • And that demand put a lot of the housepainters and carpenters in the business of producing decoys.”

    Decoys Aren't Just for Hunters Anymore 2011

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