pavement artist

noun

, Chiefly British.

1. sidewalk artist.

Word History and Origins

Origin of pavement artist¹

First recorded in 1895–1900

Example Sentences

Even the pavement artist will destroy his work rather than allow some poor wretch to sit beside his pictures and collect an alms.

From Project Gutenberg

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.

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Pavement Artist (who has not yet recovered the nerve which he lost on hearing of the attack upon the Velasquez Venus).

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Because there is a decadent art about, one need not make a hero of the pavement artist.

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One day, not so very long ago, Miss Jellicoe and a friend had stopped at a street corner to watch a pavement artist at work.

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