pavement artist

American  

noun

Chiefly British.

1. sidewalk artist.

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Etymology

Origin of pavement artist

First recorded in 1895–1900

Example Sentences

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pavement artist

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 Souttar, Henry Sessions

He was a pavement artist and he had a pitch outside the railings of the great terminus in Euston Road, where he used to sit and patronise London.

From Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile by Murray, David Christie

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 Thurston, E. Temple (Ernest Temple)

"I'd rather be a pavement artist and my own master than Chief Inspector with an unknown spy following me about."

From Dope by Rohmer, Sax

What is more, in themselves they are as feeble and commonplace as the drawing of a pavement artist, which, in fact, they resemble.

From Since Cézanne by Bell, Clive