pavement artist
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of pavement artist
First recorded in 1895–1900
Example Sentences
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Because there is a decadent art about, one need not make a hero of the pavement artist.
From The Practice and Science of Drawing by Harold Speed
"I'd rather be a pavement artist and my own master than Chief Inspector with an unknown spy following me about."
From Dope by Sax Rohmer
It is a loathsome idea to think that a man of the type of Sargent is of the same noble profession as the pavement artist.
From Sally Bishop A Romance by E. Temple (Ernest Temple) Thurston
Even the pavement artist will destroy his work rather than allow some poor wretch to sit beside his pictures and collect an alms.
From A Surgeon in Belgium by Henry Sessions Souttar
Hubert now saw that the handkerchief was filled with bits of coloured chalk, and guessed that the man must be a pavement artist.
From Vain Fortune by George (George Augustus) Moore
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