pavement artist
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of pavement artist
First recorded in 1895–1900
Example Sentences
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I'm a fust-rate judge of character, though I be but a pavement artist; but a picture's none the less a picture, no matter where it is drawn.
From Vain Fortune by George (George Augustus) Moore
Fra Angelico, as an irreverent pavement artist, was Culling's artistic parent for the time being.
From The Sixth Sense A Novel by Stephen McKenna
Because there is a decadent art about, one need not make a hero of the pavement artist.
From The Practice and Science of Drawing by Harold Speed
It's a nice life—better than being a pavement artist in Pimlico!
From Innocent : her fancy and his fact by Marie Corelli
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 Clive Bell
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