house painter
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of house painter
First recorded in 1680–90
Example Sentences
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After immigrating to Australia from the Basque Country, a region that straddles the border between France and Spain, the working-class house painter took roughly 13 years to build the family’s home.
From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 30, 2025
Which famous artwork was stolen in 1911 by an Italian house painter named Vincenzo Peruggia?
From Slate • Feb. 6, 2024
“There’s a typhoon and floodwaters may rush down Mayon and swamp this village. That’s one of our fears,” Villamor Lopez, a house painter, told The Associated Press.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 10, 2023
Sometimes, it is Ms. Devi adding to the smoke with wood fires she burns when her husband, a house painter, has no work and the family has no cash to refill the cooking gas cylinder.
From New York Times • Dec. 7, 2022
How he wished that he had been a scientist, instead of a house painter in Stillwater, so that he might have joined some of the great Polar expeditions.
From "Mr. Popper's Penguins" by Florence Atwater and Richard Atwater
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