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mosaicist

American  
[moh-zey-uh-sist] / moʊˈzeɪ ə sɪst /

noun

  1. a person who works in mosaic.


Etymology

Origin of mosaicist

First recorded in 1840–50; mosaic + -ist

Example Sentences

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Though best known as a painter, mosaicist and head of the art department at Scripps College, Sheets was also an architect, and this was by far his biggest building commission.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 24, 2017

Hildreth Meiere, an American artist, architectural artist, muralist and mosaicist was responsible for the anat design.

From New York Times • Jan. 2, 2015

The grandson of a master mosaicist pays tribute to his heritage with a new furniture line.

From New York Times • Mar. 12, 2014

Among them: Men and Horses, a three-panel impression of the Parthenon frieze that might have been done by a nearsighted mosaicist, and a monster quad-ruptych called The Birth of the Triglyph.

From Time Magazine Archive

He was a painter and mosaicist, trained by his father, and a merchant as well; in middle age he settled down to commercial life in Venice, and he added greatly to the family wealth.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4 "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth" by Various