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house painter

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noun

a person whose occupation is painting houses.

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Origin of house painter

First recorded in 1680–90

Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019

Examples from the Web for house painter

And yet he is but a house-painter, who owes his establishment here to his love of nature rather than to his love of art.
Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 4, September, 1850|Various
He gave a lecture on Leclaire, the house-painter in Paris who initiated an excellent plan of co-operative sharing for his workmen.
George Eliot's Life, Vol. III (of 3)|George Eliot
I had still three of the gulden that Luigi gave me, and I went to a house-painter and got work with him.
Villa Rubein and Other Stories|John Galsworthy
The larger part of them have been effaced by the glazier and the house-painter.
Letters to an Unknown|Prosper Mrime

He is variously stated to have begun life as a house-painter, or as a solicitor's clerk.
English Painters|Harry John Wilmot-Buxton